![]() The Story of Civilization was written in 1931. Philosophy For Our Times, London: Thomas Nelson & Sons. And HERE for the pdf version of the same. ![]() In fact the book’s intended primary audience, when it was first published, was kids. If you want to introduce a child or a young mind to philosophy and good ideas, this is the go-to book. ![]() The book and its take on what it means to be ‘civilized’ have stayed with me ever since. I read it as a child when my guru, my English teacher, lent it to me (he used to say I bought this book only for two rupees from a roadside book vendor). All of 94 pages in big font, it packs in some profound philosophy in palatable, often delicious, lines. Man has a better chance today to do these things than he ever had before.” CEM Joad’s The Story of Civilization is one of the best examples of the cliche that awesome things come in small packages. “ being civilized mean making and liking beautiful things, thinking freely, and living rightly and maintaining justice equally between man and man.
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