![]() He sought to unify and humanize the great body of historical knowledge, which had grown voluminous and become fragmented into esoteric specialties, and to vitalize it for contemporary application. ĭurant conceived of philosophy as total perspective or seeing things sub specie totius (i.e., "from the perspective of the whole")-a phrase inspired by Spinoza's sub specie aeternitatis, roughly meaning "from the perspective of the eternal". He was earlier noted for The Story of Philosophy (1926), described as "a groundbreaking work that helped to popularize philosophy". It was written in collaboration with his wife, Ariel Durant, and published between 19. ![]() William James Durant ( / d ə ˈ r æ n t/ Novem– November 7, 1981) was an American historian and philosopher, best known for his 11-volume work, The Story of Civilization, which contains and details the history of Eastern and Western civilizations. ![]()
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