a history of western philosophy by bertrand russell

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. In seventy-six chapters he traces philosophy from the rise of Greek civilization to the emergence of logical analysis in the twentieth century. He was not only personally unsympathetic to the figures, the state of scholarly research on medieval philosophy at the time was atrocious. Since its first publication in 1945, Lord Russell’s A History of Western Philosophy is still unparalleled in its comprehensiveness, its clarity, its erudition, its grace, and its wit. Especially dont take anything he says about medieval philosophy that seriously. Written by a man who changed the history of philosophy himself, this is an account that has never been rivaled since its first publication over 60 years ago. 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 subjectâunparalleled in its comprehensiveness, its clarity, its erudition, its grace and wit. First published in 1946, History of Western Philosophy went on to become the best-selling philosophy book of the twentieth century. Russells history is a classic, but its dated.

A history of western philosophy by bertrand russell