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What were we thinking?(Books)(Ideas: A History from Fire to Freud)(Critical essay)
Ideas: A History from Fire to Freud, by Peter Watson; Orion, 2006, $45.
IDEAS, as Peter Watson admits in the introduction to his ambitious guide to how we understand our understanding of the world, do not have an especially long history. If philosophy traditionally began in wonder, as Aristotle says, after Descartes it had to start all over again, with doubt. Wonder was an impediment to knowledge; and it never showed much scepticism about Plato's transcendental postulates, to which, as Alfred North Whitehead once remarked, the history of Western thought has been little more than a series of footnotes. He had unaccountably forgotten the man who had rebuilt the ...
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