Title: History of Western philosophy /
Authors: Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 2004
Subjects: Philosophy History; Philosophy history
Abstract: [The author's] purpose is to exhibit philosophy as an integral part of social and political life: not as the isolated speculations of remarkable individuals, but as both an effect and a cause of the character of the various communities in which different systems flourished.-Pref.
Contents: Ancient philosophy: Pre-Socratics; Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle; Ancient philosophy after Aristotle -- Catholic philosophy: Fathers; Schoolmen -- Modern philosophy: From the Renaissance to Hume; From Rousseau to the present day.