HISTORY OF WESTERN PHILOSOPHY, THE

Since its first publication in 1945, Lord Russell's "A History of Western Philos
ophy" is still unparalleled in its comprehensiveness, its clarity, its erudition
, its grace, and its 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, Parmeni
des, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, the Atomists, Protagoras, Socrates, Plato, Aristotl
e, the Cynics, the Sceptics, the Epicureans, the Stoics, Plotinus, Ambrose, Jero
me, 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, Cantor, Frege and Whitehead.