A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

In seventy-six chapters he traces philosophy from the rise of Greek civilization to the emergence of logical analysis in the twentieth century. John Dewey Chapter XXXI.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. Currents of Thought in the Nineteenth Century Chapter XXII. From Rousseau to the Present Day Chapter XVIII. Locke''s Political Philosophy Chapter XV. Locke''s Theory of Knowledge Chapter XIV.

The Reformation and Counter-Reformation Chapter VI.

Mohammedan Culture and Philosophy Chapter XI. Ecclesiastical Reform in the Eleventh Century Chapter X. The Papacy in the Dark Ages Chapter VIII. Saint Benedict and Gregory the Great Part II. The Fifth and Sixth Centuries Chapter VI. Saint Augustine''s Philosophy and Theology Chapter V. Christianity During the First Four Centuries Chapter III. The Religious Development of the Jews Chapter II. The Roman Empire in Relation to Culture Chapter XXX. Ancient Philosophy after Aristotle Chapter XXV. Early Greek Mathematics and Astronomy Part III. Knowledge and Perception in Plato Chapter XIX. Plato''s Theory of Immortality Chapter XVII. The Sources of Plato''s Opinions Chapter XIV. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle Chapter XI. Athens in Relation to Culture Chapter VIII. The Rise of Greek Civilization Chapter II. Table of Contents Preface by Author Introduction BOOK ONE. 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 monumentalPrincipia Mathematica. Since its first publication in 1945? Lord Russell'sA History of Western Philosophyhas been universally acclaimed as the outstanding one-volume work on the subject - unparalleled in its comprehensiveness, its clarity, its erudition, its grace and wit.

A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell