History of Western Philosophy (Routledge Classics)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: March 29, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 778
ISBN-13: 9780415325059
First sentence: IN all history, nothing is so surprising or so difficult to account for as the sudden rise of civilization in Greece.
Description: [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.