For the modern reader, the book serves as a reminder that the "big questions"—What is justice? How should I live? What can I know?—are not reserved for the ivory tower. They belong to anyone with the curiosity to pick up a book.
Before it was a massive hardcover, The Story of Philosophy began as a series of "Little Blue Books"—inexpensive, pocket-sized pamphlets intended for the working class. Durant, who taught at the Labor Temple in New York, had a gift for explaining complex ideas without stripping them of their soul.
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