By Will Durant
A super and concise account of the lives and concepts of the nice philosophers -- Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Spinoza, Voltaire, Kant, Schopenhauer, Spencer, Nietzsche, Bergson, Croce, Russell, Santayana, James and Dewey -- The tale of Philosophy is likely one of the nice books of our time. Few write for the nonspecialist in addition to Will Durant, and this booklet is a excellent instance of his eminently readable scholarship. Durant's perception and wit by no means stop to dazzle; The tale of Philosophy is a key publication for any reader who needs to survey the heritage and improvement of philosophical principles within the Western international.
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Qxp 12/8/2011 2:47 PM Christ Carrying the Cross (detail). Oil on panel, 150 x 94 cm. Palacio Real, Madrid. ” The Lord, seated as on a heavenly throne, holds on His lap a book, symbolic of the “Word” which is becoming incarnate below. Fränger saw the throne as a prefiguration of the great world globe, for it seems to repeat the shape of the large crystal globe by being a miniature crystal enclosure. In reverse, God’s throne is repeated and realised in the larger cosmological symbol, which finds its fulfilment when the wings of the altarpiece are thrown open.
Qxp 12/8/2011 2:51 PM Page 48 too, that both the Emperor Charles V and one of his courtiers, Felipe de Guevara, had acquired several of Bosch’s paintings within a remarkably short time after the painter’s death. The fact that Charles’ son Philip confiscated one altarpiece from a rebellious Netherlandish Burgher makes it seem more likely that some paintings were owned privately rather than being part of the sacred equipment of churches; but it suggests as even less of a likelihood that the paintings were the hidden and guarded property of heretical sects.
5 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. qxp 12/8/2011 2:54 PM Page 52 hence the painter’s own created world seems on the point of vanishing”. The scholar went on to push Bosch over the edge with his next words: [If] we have to ascribe even the painter’s most peculiar originality to a mentor, it seems as though his own share in the achievement must sink to that of a craftsman, no matter how highly qualified, merely executing somebody else’s orders … it might have been more logical to devote all our energies to working out the personality of the real spiritual creator and – leaving Bosch on one side – to reinstate the actual origination of this profound work.