History of Western philosophy / Bertrand Russell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970, author.

Series:

Routledge classics.

Routledge classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy--History.

Philosophy.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (778 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

First published in 1946, History of Western Philosophy went on to become the best-selling philosophy book of the twentieth century. A dazzlingly ambitious project, it remains unchallenged to this day as the ultimate introduction to Western philosophy. Providing a sophisticated overview of the ideas that have perplexed people from time immemorial, it is 'long on wit, intelligence and curmudgeonly scepticism', as the New York Times noted, and it is this, coupled with the sheer brilliance of its scholarship, that has made Russell's History of Western Philosophy one of t

Contents:

Cover; History of Western Philosophy; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; PREFACE; Introduction; BOOK ONE Ancient Philosophy; PART I The Pre-Socratics; 1 The Rise of Greek Civilization; 2 The Milesian School; 3 Pythagoras; 4 Heraclitus; 5 Parmenides; 6 Empedocles; 7 Athens in Relation to Culture; 8 Anaxagoras; 9 The Atomists; 10 Protagoras; PART II Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle; 11 Socrates; 12 The Influence of Sparta; 13 The Sources of Plato's Opinions; 14 Plato's Utopia; 15 The Theory of Ideas; 16 Plato's Theory of Immortality; 17 Plato's Cosmogony

18 Knowledge and Perception in Plato19 Aristotle's Metaphysics; 20 Aristotle's Ethics; 21 Aristotle's Politics; 22 Aristotle's Logic; 23 Aristotle's Physics; 24 Early Greek Mathematics and Astronomy; PART III Ancient Philosophy after Aristotle; 25 The Hellenistic World; 26 Cynics and Sceptics; 27 The Epicureans; 28 Stoicism; 29 The Roman Empire in Relation to Culture; 30 Plotinus; BOOK TWO Catholic Philosophy; Introduction; PART I The Fathers; 1 The Religious Development of the Jews; 2 Christianity During the First Four Centuries; 3 Three Doctors of the Church

4 St Augustine's Philosophy and Theology5 The Fifth and Sixth Centuries; 6 St Benedict and Gregory the Great; PART II The Schoolmen; 7 The Papacy in the Dark Ages; 8 John the Scot; 9 Ecclesiastical Reform in the Eleventh Century; 10 Mohammedan Culture and Philosophy; 11 The Twelfth Century; 12 The Thirteenth Century; 13 St Thomas Aquinas; 14 Franciscan Schoolmen; 15 The Eclipse of the Papacy; BOOK THREE Modern Philosophy; PART I From the Renaissance to Hume; 1 General Characteristics; 2 The Italian Renaissance; 3 Machiavelli; 4 Erasmus and More; 5 The Reformation and Counter-Reformation

6 The Rise of Science7 Francis Bacon; 8 Hobbes's Leviathan; 9 Descartes; 10 Spinoza; 11 Leibniz; 12 Philosophical Liberalism; 13 Locke's Theory of Knowledge; 14 Locke's Political Philosophy; 15 Locke's Influence; 16 Berkeley; 17 Hume; Part II From Rousseau to the Present Day; 18 The Romantic Movement; 19 Rousseau; 20 Kant; 21 Currents of Thought in the Nineteenth Century; 22 Hegel; 23 Byron; 24 Schopenhauer; 25 Nietzsche; 26 The Utilitarians; 27 Karl Marx; 28 Bergson; 29 William James; 30 John Dewey; 31 The Philosophy of Logical Analysis; INDEX

Notes:

First published in 1946 by George Allen & Unwin Ltd.

ISBN:

9780203487974

9781134343669

1134343663

9781138127043

1138127043

9780203487976

0203487974

9781280019838

1280019832

9781134343676

1134343671

OCLC:

431466226