A History of Western Philosophy remains unchallenged as the perfect introduction to its subject.Russell……writes with the kind of verve, freshness and personal engagement that lesser spirits would never have permitted themselves.This boldness, together with the astonishing breadth of his general historical knowledge, allows him to put philosophers into their social and cultural context…… The result is exactly the kind of philosophy that most people would like to read, but which only Russell could possibly have written.

Since its first publication in 1945？ 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.

Preface by Author

Introduction

BOOK ONE.ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY

 Part Ⅰ.The Pre-Socratics

Chapter Ⅰ.The Rise of Greek CⅣilization

Chapter Ⅱ.The Milesian School

Chapter Ⅲ.Pythagoras

Chapter Ⅳ.Heraclitus

Chapter Ⅴ.Parmenides

Chapter Ⅵ.Empedocles

Chapter Ⅶ.Athens in Relation to Culture

Chapter Ⅷ.Anaxagoras

Chapter Ⅸ.The Atomists

Chapter Ⅹ.Protagoras

 Part Ⅱ.Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle

Chapter Ⅺ.Socrates

Chapter Ⅻ The Influence of Sparta

Chapter ⅩⅢ.The Sources of Plato's Opinions

Chapter ⅩⅣ.Plato's Utopia

Chapter ⅩⅤ.The Theory of Ideas

Chapter ⅩⅥ.Plato's Theory of Immortality

Chapter ⅩⅦ.Plato's Cosmogony

Chapter ⅩⅧ.Knowledge and Perception in Plato

Chapter ⅩⅨ.Aristotle's Metaphysics

Chapter ⅩⅩ.Aristotle's Ethics

Chapter ⅩⅪ.Aristotle's Politics

Chapter ⅩⅫ.Aristotle's Logic

Chapter ⅩⅩⅢ.Aristotle's Physics

Chapter ⅩⅩⅣ.Early Greek Mathematics and

Astronomy

 Part Ⅲ.Ancient Philosophy after Aristotle

Chapter ⅩⅩⅤ.The Hellenistic World

Chapter ⅩⅩⅥ.Cynics and Sceptics

Chapter ⅩⅩⅦ.The Epicureans

Chapter ⅩⅩⅧ.Stoicism

Chapter ⅩⅩⅨ.The Roman Empire in Relation to Culture

Chapter ⅩⅩⅩ.Plotinus

BOOK TWO.CATHOLIC PHILOSOPHY

 Introduction

 Part Ⅰ.The Fathers

Chapter Ⅰ.The Religious Development of the Jews

Chapter Ⅱ.Christianity During the First Four Centuries

Chapter Ⅲ.Three Doctors of the Church

Chapter Ⅳ.Saint Augustine's Philosophy and Theology

Chapter Ⅴ.The Fifth and Sixth Centuries

Chapter Ⅵ.Saint Benedict and Gregory the Great

 Part Ⅱ.The Schoolmen

Chapter Ⅶ.The Papacy in the Dark Ages

Chapter Ⅷ.John the Scot

Chapter Ⅸ.Ecclesiastical Reform in the Eleventh Century

Chapter Ⅹ.Mohammedan Culture and Philosophy

Chapter Ⅺ.The Twelfth Century

Chapter Ⅻ.The Thirteenth Century

Chapter ⅩⅩⅢ.Saint Thomas Aquinas

Chapter ⅩⅩⅣ.Franciscan Schoolmen

Chapter ⅩⅤ.The Eclipse of the Papacy

BOOKTHREE.MODERNPHILOSOPHY

 Part Ⅰ.From the Renaissance to Hume

Chapter Ⅰ.General Characteristics

Chapter Ⅱ.The Italian Renaissance

Chapter Ⅲ.Machiavelli

Chapter Ⅳ.Erasmus and More

Chapter Ⅴ.The Reformation and Counter-Reformation

Chapter Ⅵ.The Rise of Science

Chapter Ⅶ.Francis Bacon

Chapter Ⅷ.Hobbes's Leviathan

Chapter Ⅸ.Descartes

Chapter Ⅹ.Spinoza

Chapter Ⅺ.Leibniz

Chapter Ⅻ.Philosophical Liberalism

Chapter ⅩⅩⅢ.Locke's Theory of Knowledge

Chapter ⅩⅩⅣ.Locke's Political Philosophy

Chapter ⅩⅤ.Locke's Influence

Chapter ⅩⅥ.Berkeley

Chapter ⅩⅦ.Hume

 Part Ⅱ.From Rousseau to the Present Day

Chapter ⅩⅧ.The Romantic Movement

Chapter ⅥⅩ.Rousseau

Chapter ⅩⅩ.Kant

Chapter ⅩⅪ.Currents of Thought in the Nine-teenth Century

Chapter ⅩⅫ.Hegel

Chapter ⅩⅩm.Byron

Chapter ⅩⅩⅣ.Schopenhauer

Chapter ⅩⅩⅤ.Nietzsche

Chapter ⅩⅩⅥ.The UNitarians

Chapter ⅩⅩⅦ.Karl Marx

Chapter ⅩⅩⅦ.Bergson

Chapter ⅩⅩⅨ.William James

Chapter ⅩⅩⅩ.John Dewey

Chapter ⅩⅩⅪ.The Philosophy of Logical

Analvsis

Index