Awesome read, Will Durant is my new Favorite...
I never knew that his this book gonna be that much classic, his story of philosophy is a Gem, but pleasure of Philosophy is no less than a Gem.
The pleasure of Philosophy talks literally about everything, it takes about all about the inside of a human, as well as what is outside of the human, it eloquent discusses every metaphoric things as well as Every thing from religion, to science, to Philosophy, to reason, to sensation to life to death, to virtues, to good, to evil.
The book has everything in it, you can all is a Philosphical book, you can easily categories it into, history, economy, evolution, science, wisdom. It talks about everything that the earth has ever seen, You will find in the book from Confucius, to Buddha, to Christ, it will then shifts from theology to Philosophy and the you will be meeting Socrate, Plato, Aristotle, Francis bacon, Voltaire, Spinoza, Frederick Nietzsche then from the philosophy you will be reading everything about economics, from Hegel to karl Marx, to Adam Smith then you will be reading historians Such as Anatole France, you will also get a touch of classic writers such as Dostoevsky, Goethe , Tolstoy .. you name it, everything on the plate there will be served to you...
The book is as versatile as its author, the book traces everything from the beginning of humanity, it traces the evolution of human, it dig deep upon the differences between societies, civilization, it takes you into a journey of marriage, why nature given marriage to human, and it rightly say that the gift of marriage from the nature wasn't given to us because of the mating or for the parents, but it was for the children, it was for preserving the race..
This is one of the best book I have ever read, I don't think there is any topic that book has missed, it gives us an eloquent view of how evolution has made woman into woman and man into man. It is all those instincts and choices in our genes that our grand grand grand grand grand parents have taken, which made us what we are today, like in the hunting age it was good for the woman to stay at home and care for children's, and at that times it was good for the race to raise as many children as possible, and then man was responsible for the food, he was the one who takes all those risk of getting out of his home, and look for the food, and in his journey for getting the food he has confront with every challenge that comes his way, so our evolution made us man physically stronger, and woman become lazy non masculine at home.. this distinguishion is in everything, and this was the old ages that the author ponder on, in the book Will Durant candidly enlighten the recent change that is going on in our civilization, will said that the greatest change in the first quarter of 20th Century wasn't the Great world war, neither it was Russian revolution, rather it was the change in status of women.. now our markets demands women to work as well as, they are making women independent, they are providing with the jobs , the economic stability, and hence what was then in the hunting age, it was feasible for the race to grow and marriage happened as soon as they reached the age of puberty, whereas now the marriage are getting delayed, more and more people are preferring to live single, and the age of marriage has being prolonged for many years, now market demands both individual to be single, and marriage is considered to be as hindrance for market.
I will give full ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐, this is a masterpiece book, which talks about everything that it is there to be talked.