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The work explains key intellectual periods by linking them to broader historical developments, arguing that general history is essential for understanding thinkers outside a reader’s familiar background. Special attention is given to transitions such as the centuries between the fall of Rome and the rise of the medieval papacy.","COPYRIGHT 1945 BY BERTRAND RUSSELL COPYRIGHT RENEWED © 1972 BY EDITH RUSSELL ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INCLUDING THE RIGHT OF REPRODUCTION  \nIN WHOLE OR IN PART IN ANY FORMA TOUCHSTONE BOOK  \nPUBLISHED BY SIMON & SCHUSTER, INC.  \nROCKEFELLER CENTER, 1230 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10020  \nTOUCHSTONE AND COLOPHON ARE REGISTERED TRADEMARKS OF  \nSIMON & SCHUSTER, INC.  \nISBN-13: 978-1-4165-9915-9 ISBN-10: 1-4165-9915-0  \nVisit us on the World Wide Web:  \n[http://www.SimonSays.com](http://www.SimonSays.com)  \nTable of Contents  \nPreface by Author Introduction  \nBOOK ONE. ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY  \nPart I. The Pre-Socratics  \nChapter I. The Rise of Greek Civilization Chapter II. The Milesian School Chapter III. Pythagoras  \nChapter IV. Heraclitus Chapter V. Parmenides Chapter VI. Empedocles  \nChapter VII. Athens in Relation to Culture Chapter VIII. Anaxagoras  \nChapter IX. The Atomists Chapter X. Protagoras  \nPart II. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle  \nChapter XI. Socrates  \nChapter XII. The Influence of Sparta  \nChapter XIII. The Sources of Plato’s Opinions  \nChapter XIV. Plato’s Utopia  \nChapter XV. The Theory of Ideas  \nChapter XVI. Plato’s Theory of Immortality  \nChapter XVII. Plato’s Cosmogony  \nChapter XVIII. Knowledge and Perception in Plato  \nChapter XIX. Aristotle’s Metaphysics  \nChapter XX. Aristotle’s Ethics  \nChapter XXI. Aristotle’s Politics  \nChapter XXII. Aristotle’s Logic  \nChapter XXIII. Aristotle’s Physics  \nChapter XXIV. Early Greek Mathematics and Astronomy  \nPart III. Ancient Philosophy after Aristotle  \nChapter XXV. The Hellenistic World  \nChapter XXVI. Cynics and Sceptics  \nChapter XXVII. The Epicureans  \nChapter XXVIII. Stoicism  \nChapter XXIX. The Roman Empire in Relation to Culture Chapter XXX. Plotinus  \nBOOK TWO. CATHOLIC PHILOSOPHY  \nIntroduction  \nPart I. The Fathers  \nChapter I. The Religious Development of the Jews  \nChapter II. Christianity During the First Four Centuries Chapter III. Three Doctors of the Church  \nChapter IV. Saint Augustine’s Philosophy and Theology Chapter V. The Fifth and Sixth Centuries  \nChapter VI. Saint Benedict and Gregory the Great  \nPart II. The Schoolmen  \nChapter VII. The Papacy in the Dark Ages  \nChapter VIII. John the Scot  \nChapter IX. Ecclesiastical Reform in the Eleventh Century Chapter X. Mohammedan Culture and Philosophy  \nChapter XI. The Twelfth Century  \nChapter XII. The Thirteenth Century  \nChapter XIII. Saint Thomas Aquinas  \nChapter XIV. Franciscan Schoolmen  \nChapter XV. The Eclipse of the Papacy  \nBOOK THREE. MODERN PHILOSOPHY  \nPart I. From the Renaissance to Hume  \nChapter I. General Characteristics  \nChapter II. The Italian Renaissance  \nChapter III. Machiavelli  \nChapter IV. Erasmus and More  \nChapter V. The Reformation and Counter-Reformation Chapter VI. The Rise of Science  \nChapter VII. Francis Bacon  \nChapter VIII. Hobbes’s Leviathan  \nChapter IX. Descartes  \nChapter X. Spinoza  \nChapter XI. Leibniz  \nChapter XII. Philosophical Liberalism  \nChapter XIII. Locke’s Theory of Knowledge  \nChapter XIV. Locke’s Political Philosophy  \nChapter XV. Locke’s Influence  \nChapter XVI. Berkeley  \nChapter XVII. Hume  \nPart II. From Rousseau to the Present Day  \nChapter XVIII. The Romantic Movement  \nChapter XIX. Rousseau  \nChapter XX. Kant  \nChapter XXI. Currents of Thought in the Nineteenth Century Chapter XXII. Hegel  \nChapter XXIII. Byron  \nChapter XXIV. Schopenhauer  \nChapter XXV. Nietzsche  \nChapter XXVI. The Utilitarians  \nChapter XXVII. Karl Marx  \nChapter XXVIII. Bergson  \nChapter XXIX. William James  \nChapter XXX. John Dewey  \nChapter XXXI. The Philosophy of Logical Analysis  \nPreface  \nMANY histories of philosophy exist, and it has not been my purpose merely to add one to their number. My 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. This purpo","cbCaipc58nAVUBok","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaipc58nAVUBok","pdf",3616258,3,1,845,"English","en",105,"# Table of Contents\n## Book One. Ancient Philosophy\n## Book Two. Catholic Philosophy\n## Book Three. 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