The Making of a Philosopher: My Journey Through Twentieth-Century PhilosophyPart memoir, part study, The Making of a Philosopher is the self–portrait of a deeply intelligent mind as it develops over a life on both sides of the Atlantic. The Making of a Philosopher follows Colin McGinn from his early years in England reading Descartes and Anselm, to his years in the states, first in Los Angeles, then New York. McGinn presents a contemporary academic take on the great philosophical figures of the twentieth century, including Bertrand Russell, Jean–Paul Sartre, and Noam Chomsky, alongside stories of the teachers who informed his ideas and often became friends and mentors, especially the colorful A.J. Ayer at Oxford. McGinn's prose is always elegant and probing; students of contemporary philosophy and the general reader alike will absorb every page.
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... intellectual journey , dominated by philosophic passion , a passion for pushing thinking to its limits , and as such it is both abstract and urgently per- sonal . If Wittgenstein had written an autobiography it might have resembled this ...
... intellectual autobiography . I therefore men- tion only those experiences and relationships that bear directly upon my intellectual life . I make no mention of experiences and relationships , however important they may have been , that ...
... intellectual adventures described in James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man , which was part of our prescribed reading for English A- level ( my third A - level was Economics ) . But Mr. Marsh ignited in me an interest in ...
... intellectual foundations of the belief . Is it just a matter of blind faith or can God's existence be proven ? And asking this question quickly leads to the whole issue of what a justification is anyway , as well as to questions about ...
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