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A History of Western Philosophy is a nonfiction book written by Bertrand Russell. Released in 1946, it serves as a retelling of the study of philosophy centered on "the West".
Notable People Within[]
- Pythagoras
- Heraclitus
- Parmenides
- Empedocles
- Anaxagoras
- Protagoras
- Socrates
- Plato
- Aristotle
- Plotinus
- Ambrose of Milan
- St. Jerome
- Augustine of Hippo
- Benedict de Spinoza
- Gregory the Great
- John the Scot
- Thomas Aquinas
- Duns Scotus
- William of Occam
- Niccolò Machiavelli
- Desiderius Erasmus
- Henry More
- Francis Bacon
- Thomas Hobbes
- Rene Descartes
- Baruch Spinoza
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- John Locke
- George Berkeley
- David Hume
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Immanuel Kant
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Karl Marx
- Henri Bergson
- William James
- John Dewey
- Georg Cantor
- Gottlob Frege
- Alfred North Whitehead
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Publisher's summary[]
Since its first publication in 1945 [sic] 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. In seventy-six chapters he traces philosophy from the rise of Greek civilization to the emergence of logical analysis in the twentieth century.
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.
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Book 1: Ancient Philosophy[]
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