A History of Western Philosophy

Sinceitsfirstpublicationin1945,Russell'sAHistoryofWesternPhilosophyhasbeenuniversallyacclaimedastheoutstandingone-volumeworkonthesubject—unparalleledinitscomprehensiveness,itsclarity,itserudition,itsgraceandwit.Inseventy-sixchaptershetracesphilosophyfromtheriseofGreekcivilizationtotheemergenceoflogicalanalysisinthetwentiethcentury.Amongthephilosophersconsideredare:Pythagoras,Heraclitus,Parmenides,Empedocles,Anaxagoras,theAtomists,Protagoras,Socrates,Plato,Aristotle,theCynics,theSceptics,theEpicureans,theStoics,Plotinus,Ambrose,Jerome,Augustine,Benedict,GregorytheGreat,JohntheScot,Aquinas,DunsScotus,WilliamofOccam,Machiavelli,Erasmus,More,Bacon,Hobbes,Descartes,Spinoza,Leibniz,Locke,Berkeley,Hume,Rousseau,Kant,Hegel,Schopenhauer,Nietzsche,theUtilitarians,Marx,Bergson,James,Dewey,andlastlythephilosopherswithwhomLordRussellhimselfismostcloselyassociated—Cantor,Frege,andWhitehead,co-authorwithRussellofthemonumentalPrincipiaMathematica.