By Etienne Gilson
Etienne Gilson the easiest precis of this ebook is within the authors phrases from the forword: "It is the right kind objective and scope of the current publication to teach that the heritage of philosophy makes philosophical feel, and to outline its that means in regard to the character of philosophical wisdom itself. hence, some of the doctrines, in addition to the certain elements of those doctrines, that have been taken into consideration during this quantity, shouldn't be regarded as arbitrarily chosen fragments from a few abridged description of the medieval and smooth philosophy, yet as a chain of concrete philosophical experiments in particular selected for his or her dogmatic value. each one of them represents a distinct try to take care of philosophical wisdom based on a definite procedure, and them all, taken jointly, make up a philosophical event. the truth that all these experiments have yielded an analogous outcome will, as i am hoping, justify the typical conclusion...that there's a centuries lengthy event of what philosophical wisdom is—and that such an adventure shows a impressive unity."
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