A History of Western Philosophy
A History of Western Philosophy
Author: Bertrand Russell
Desc: Since its first publication in 1945 Lord Russell's A History of Western Philosophy has been universally acclaimed as the outstanding one-volume work on the subject—unparalleled in its comprehensiveness its clarity its erudition its grace and wit. In seventy-six chapters he traces philosophy from the rise of Greek civilization to the emergence of logical analysis in the twentieth century. Among the philosophers considered are: Pythagoras Heraclitus Parmenides Empedocles Anaxagoras the Atomists Protagoras Socrates Plato Aristotle the Cynics the Sceptics the Epicureans the Stoics Plotinus Ambrose Jerome Augustine Benedict Gregory the Great John the Scot Aquinas Duns Scotus William of Occam Machiavelli Erasmus More Bacon Hobbes Descartes Spinoza Leibniz Locke Berkeley Hume Rousseau Kant Hegel Schopenhauer Nietzsche the Utilitarians Marx Bergson James Dewey and lastly the philosophers with whom Lord Russell himself is most closely associated -- Cantor Frege and Whitehead co-author with Russell of the monumental Principia Mathematica.