Is the world a cosmos or chaos? Does it make sense in human history? And if so, what is it? Is man free and responsible for his acts or just a fragment of the universe determined by the rigid laws of nature? Can you give us certainties of science? What is truth? What are the foundations of democracy?_x000D_
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The history of philosophy is the history of the philosophical problems of philosophical theories and philosophical arguments. It is the story ever new attempts to raise issues with the hope to know more and more about ourselves and to find guidance for our lives._x000D_
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Giovanni Reale and Dario Antiseri, drawing on epistemological and pedagogical criteria, in this work provide a powerful didactic exposition of the history of philosophy: the analytical exposition of the problems and ideas of different philosophers prefixed a summary of the ideas discussed conceived as an aid to memory, then added a philosophical lexicon, or dictionary of the fundamental concepts of various philosophers, as a useful tool for conceptualization. In short, lexical analysis and together, in addition, a large and thoughtful selection of texts._x000D_
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Volume III Volume 1. From Romanticism to empirio includes the following parts: The Romantic movement and the formation of idealism and absolutism Foundation speculative idealism of Hegelianism to Marxism Large System challengers Hegelian philosophy in France during the Restoration and the Italian philosophy the time of the "Risorgimento"; positivism in European culture and, finally, the development of science in the nineteenth century, empirio and conventionalism.