'Updating Bertrand Russell for the 21st century . . . a cerebrally
enjoyable survey, written with great clarity and touches of wit . .
. The non-western section throws up some fascinating revelations'
Sunday Times The story of philosophy is an epic tale: an
exploration of the ideas, views and teachings of some of the most
creative minds known to humanity. But since the long-popular
classic Bertrand Russell's History of Western Philosophy, first
published in 1945, there has been no comprehensive and
entertaining, single-volume history of this great intellectual
journey. With his characteristic clarity and elegance A. C.
Grayling takes the reader from the world-views and moralities
before the age of the Buddha, Confucius and Socrates, through
Christianity's dominance of the European mind to the Renaissance
and Enlightenment, and on to Mill, Nietzsche, Sartre, and
philosophy today. And, since the story of philosophy is incomplete
without mention of the great philosophical traditions of India,
China and the Persian-Arabic world, he gives a comparative survey
of them too. Intelligible for students and eye-opening for
philosophy readers, he covers epistemology, metaphysics, ethics,
aesthetics, logic, the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of
language, political philosophy and the history of debates in these
areas of enquiry, through the ideas of the celebrated philosophers
as well as less well-known influential thinkers. He also asks what
we have learnt from this body of thought, and what progress is
still to be made. The first authoritative and accessible
single-volume history of philosophy for decades, remarkable for its
range and clarity, this is a landmark work.
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