A History of Western Philosophy
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.
List
001 Preface
002 Introductory
101 The Rise of Greek Civilisation
102 The Milesian School
103 Pythagoras
104 Heraclitus
105 Parmenides
106 Empedocles
107 Athens in Relation to Culture
108 Anaxagoras
109 The Atomists
110 Protagoras
111 Socrates
112 The Influence of Sparta
113 The Sources of Plato’s Opinions
114 Plato’s Utopia
115 The Theory of Ideas
116 Plato’s Theory of Immortality
117 Plato’s Cosmogony
118 Knowledge and Perception in Plato
119 Aristotle’s Metaphysics
120 Aristotle’s Ethics
121 Aristotle’s Politics
122 Aristotle’s Logic
123 Aristotle’s Physics
124 Early Greek Mathematics and Astronomy
125 The Hellenistic World
126 Cynics and Sceptics
127 The Epicureans
128 Stoicism
129 The Roman Empire in Relation to Culture
130 Plotinus
作者介绍：
罗素（1872—1970），英国哲学家、数学家、逻辑学家。英国剑桥大学三一学院毕业后留校任教。1920年曾来中国讲学。1938—1944年在美国芝加哥大学、加利福尼亚大学讲学。1950年获诺贝尔文学奖。在哲学上，早期为新实在论者，20世纪初提出逻辑原子主义和中元一元论学说。在数学上，从事过数理逻辑和数学基础的研究。以他命名的“罗素悖论”曾对20世纪的数学基础发生过重大影响，其与怀特海的巨著《数学原理》中提出的逻辑类型论成功的解决了包括罗素悖论在内的不少悖论，并且成为人类数学和数理逻辑历史上里程碑式的著作，正是这本巨著是罗素获得了崇高的声誉。在教育上，主张自由教育，认为教育的基本目的应该是培养“活力、勇气、敏感、智慧”四种品质。在政治上，反对侵略战争，倡导和平主义。重要著作有《哲学原理》、《哲学问题》、《心的分析》、《物的分析》、《西方哲学史》、《论教育》等。
