In addition, he is charitable to a wide variety of philosophical views. Grayling approaches these methodological questions judiciously, taking as few controversial stands as possible.For a book that covers more than 100 individual thinkers spanning 2,500 years, the level of both detail and accuracy is admirable. What do epistemology, ethics and metaphysics have in common, other than their failure to become independent disciplines in their own right, as physics and psychology did?. But this approach has its own difficulties. Grayling repeatedly reminds us, for most of its history 'philosophy' referred simply to rational inquiry in general. Rather than begin with an overarching definition, he identifies core concerns of what we now call 'philosophy' and then traces their historical antecedents. Grayling takes a modest approach to delimiting his subject.
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