The Story of Philosophy

By Durant, Will

Book Id: WPLBN0100750594
Format Type: PDF (eBook)
File Size: 4.40 MB.
Reproduction Date: 3/12/2025

Title:	The Story of Philosophy
Author:	Durant, Will
Volume:
Language:	Malayalam
Subject:	Non Fiction, Social Sciences
Collections:	Authors Community, Philosophy
Historic Publication Date:	2025
Publisher:	Maruthoor Purushothaman

Member Page:	Maruthoor Purushothaman
Citation APA MLA Chicago Durant, W. (2025). The Story of Philosophy. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

Description
The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant, in which he profiles several prominent Western philosophers and their ideas, beginning with Socrates and Plato and on through Nietzsche. Durant attempts to show the interconnection of their ideas and how one philosopher's ideas informed the next.

Summary
Philosophers profiled are, in order: Plato, Aristotle, Francis Bacon, Baruch Spinoza, Voltaire, Immanuel Kant, Arthur Schopenhauer, Herbert Spencer, and Friedrich Nietzsche. The final part is devoted to European and American philosophers : Henri Bergson, Benedetto Croce, Bertrand Russell, George Santayana, William James, and John Dewey.