T.Z. Lavine - From Socrates to Sartre: The Philosophic Quest

FROM SOCRATES TO SARTRE:
THE PHILOSOPHIC QUEST

Professor Lavine not only makes the philosophies intelligible, but the philosophers themselves come alive.

Henry B. Veatch
Professor of Philosophy
Georgetown University

Professor Lavine has a humane, deeply informed, and provocative mind. Her book deserves an audience which cares strongly about the generative ideas which have shaped human existence.

Maurice Natanson
Professor of Philosophy
Yale University

FROM SOCRATES TO SARTRE is an elegantly written, lucid and informative work. Dr. Lavines analytic acumen illuminates the central themes of philosophy with a sense of relevance and urgency that helps the student of philosophy embark on the road to wisdom. The book is a tribute to the power, independence and practical value of ideasa memorable and engrossing message.

Peter Diamandopoulos
Professor of Philosophy
San Francisco State University

FROM SOCRATES TO SARTRE is an impressive account of major developments in the history of philosophy. Dr. Lavine writes clearly and with sympathetic, but also critical, understanding of the philosophical issues examined. I hope the book wins the wide audience that its merits deserve.

Ernest Nagal, Professor Emeritus
Department of Philosophy
Columbia University

HERE ARE JUST A FEW OF THE
OVERWHELMING RESPONSES FROM
VIEWERS OF THE PBS TELEVISION SERIES:

Im hooked on your superb television series, From Socrates to Sartre. The clarity and concision with which you present some fairly abstruse ideas is truly commendable.

Napa, California

My husband and I are truly impressed by your grasp of philosophy and by the way in which you present the entire series, from ancient to present times, with such warmth and clarity.

Burlington, Vermont

Your marvelous series has just concluded in the San Francisco Bay area, and I want to congratulate you for a meaningful and successful effort to relate philosophy to practical everyday living.

Fremont, California

I have seen your television series, From Socrates to Sartre it provides enlightenment that for many years we have been hoping to find in print.

New York, New York

T. Z. L AVINE is currently Elton Professor of Philosophy at George Washington University. Professor Lavine received a Ph.D. from Harvard University and has received, among other awards, the Josiah Royce Fellow in Philosophy and a research fellowship in philosophy (Harvard). The author of numerous articles and books, Professor Lavine wrote and presented From Socrates to Sartre as a television series for the Maryland Center for Public Broadcasting, a series which is now included in the curriculum of the National University Consortium.

FROM SOCRATES TO SARTRE
A Bantam Book / March 1984

Illustrations courtesy of The Bettman Archives and Culver Pictures.

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The main branches of philosophy and the questions they raise and try to solve. Why study philosophy? The attacks upon philosophy. Try to imagine a world without philosophy. In this book the works of six philosophers and their views of man, God, nature, history, truth, ethics, and politics will be explored; and the philosophic viewpoints dominating the contemporary scene in philosophy will be examined.