History of Western philosophy.
Material type: TextSeries: Routledge classicsPublication details: London : Routledge, 2004.Edition: New edDescription: 778p. ; 20cmISBN:- 0415325056 (pbk.)
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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,nbsp;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 the most important philosophical works of all time.
This ed. originally published : London : Allen & Unwin, 1946.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Preface (p. x)
- Introduction (p. 1)
- Book 1 (p. 11)
- Part I The Pre-Socratics (p. 13)
- 1 The Rise of Greek Civilization (p. 15)
- 2 The Milesian School (p. 33)
- 3 Pythagoras (p. 38)
- 4 Heraclitus (p. 46)
- 5 Parmenides (p. 55)
- 6 Empedocles (p. 60)
- 7 Athens in Relation to Culture (p. 65)
- 8 Anaxagoras (p. 68)
- 9 The Atomists (p. 71)
- 10 Protagoras (p. 80)
- Part II Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle (p. 87)
- 11 Socrates (p. 89)
- 12 The Influence of Sparta (p. 99)
- 13 The Sources of Plato's Opinions (p. 108)
- 14 Plato's Utopia (p. 111)
- 15 The Theory of Ideas (p. 121)
- 16 Plato's Theory of Immortality (p. 132)
- 17 Plato's Cosmogony (p. 142)
- 18 Knowledge and Perception in Plato (p. 148)
- 19 Aristotle's Metaphysics (p. 157)
- 20 Aristotle's Ethics (p. 168)
- 21 Aristotle's Politics (p. 179)
- 22 Aristotle's Logic (p. 188)
- 23 Aristotle's Physics (p. 195)
- 24 Early Greek Mathematics and Astronomy (p. 200)
- Part III Ancient Philosophy After Aristotle (p. 209)
- 25 The Hellenistic World (p. 211)
- 26 Cynics and Sceptics (p. 220)
- 27 The Epicureans (p. 230)
- 28 Stoicism (p. 241)
- 29 The Roman Empire in Relation to Culture (p. 257)
- 30 Plotinus (p. 269)
- Book 2 Catholic Philosophy (p. 281)
- Introduction (p. 283)
- Part I The Fathers (p. 289)
- 1 The Religious Development of the Jews (p. 291)
- 2 Christianity During the First Four Centuries (p. 305)
- 3 Three Doctors of the Church (p. 314)
- 4 St Augustine's Philosophy and Theology (p. 329)
- 5 The Fifth and Sixth Centuries (p. 341)
- 6 St Benedict and Gregory the Great (p. 349)
- Part II The Schoolmen (p. 361)
- 7 The Papacy in the Dark Ages (p. 363)
- 8 John the Scot (p. 374)
- 9 Ecclesiastical Reform in the Eleventh Century (p. 380)
- 10 Mohammedan Culture and Philosophy (p. 390)
- 11 The Twelfth Century (p. 398)
- 12 The Thirteenth Century (p. 409)
- 13 St Thomas Aquinas (p. 418)
- 14 Franciscan Schoolmen (p. 428)
- 15 The Eclipse of the Papacy (p. 439)
- Book 3 (p. 449)
- Part I From the Renaissance to Hume (p. 451)
- 1 General Characteristics (p. 453)
- 2 The Italian Renaissance (p. 457)
- 3 Machiavelli (p. 465)
- 4 Erasmus and More (p. 472)
- 5 The Reformation and Counter-Reformation (p. 481)
- 6 The Rise of Science (p. 484)
- 7 Francis Bacon (p. 497)
- 8 Hobbes's Leviathan (p. 501)
- 9 Descartes (p. 511)
- 10 Spinoza (p. 521)
- 11 Leibniz (p. 531)
- 12 Philosophical Liberalism (p. 544)
- 13 Locke's Theory of Knowledge (p. 551)
- 14 Locke's Political Philosophy (p. 563)
- 15 Locke's Influence (p. 583)
- 16 Berkeley (p. 589)
- 17 Hume (p. 600)
- Part II From Rousseau to the Present Day (p. 613)
- 18 The Romantic Movement (p. 615)
- 19 Rousseau (p. 623)
- 20 Kant (p. 637)
- 21 Currents of Thought in the Nineteenth Century (p. 652)
- 22 Hegel (p. 661)
- 23 Byron (p. 675)
- 24 Schopenhauer (p. 681)
- 25 Nietzsche (p. 687)
- 26 The Utilitarians (p. 698)
- 27 Karl Marx (p. 706)
- 28 Bergson (p. 714)
- 29 William James (p. 723)
- 30 John Dewey (p. 730)
- 31 The Philosophy of Logical Analysis (p. 738)
- Index (p. 745)
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Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872-1970) was a British philosopher, logician, essayist and social critic. He was best known for his work in mathematical logic and analytic philosophy. Together with G.E. Moore, Russell is generally recognized as one of the main founders of modern analytic philosophy. Together with Kurt Gödel, he is regularly credited with being one of the most important logicians of the twentieth century.Over the course of a long career, Russell also made contributions to a broad range of subjects, including the history of ideas, ethics, political and educational theory, and religious studies. General readers have benefited from his many popular writings on a wide variety of topics.
After a life marked by controversy--including dismissals from both Trinity College, Cambridge, and City College, New York--Russell was awarded the Order of Merit in 1949 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950. Noted also for his many spirited anti-nuclear protests and for his campaign against western involvement in the Vietnam War, Russell remained a prominent public figure until his death at the age of 97.
(Bowker Author Biography)