A History of Western Philosophy

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BERTRAND RUSSELL A HISTORY OF WESTERN PHILOSOPHY And Its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Ti ...

BOOK ONE. ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY Part I. The Pre-Socratics 3 Chapter I. The Rise of Greek Civilization 3 Chapter II. The Milesian Sc ...

Chapter XXIII. Aristotle's Physics 203 Chapter XXIV. Early Greek Mathematics and Astronomy 208 Part III. Ancient Philosophy afte ...

BOOK TWO. CATHOLIC PHILOSOPHY Introduction 301 Part I. The Fathers 308 Chapter I. The Religious Development of the Jews 308 Chap ...

Chapter XI. The Twelfth Century 428 Chapter XII. The Thirteenth Century 441 Chapter XIII. Saint Thomas Aquinas 452 Chapter XIV. ...

BOOK THREE. MODERN PHILOSOPHY Part I. From the Renaissance to Hume 491 Chapter I. General Characteristics 491 Chapter II. The It ...

Chapter XXIV. Schopenhauer 753 Chapter XXV. Nietzsche 760 Chapter XXVI. The Utilitarians 773 Chapter XXVII. Karl Marx 782 Chapte ...

PREFACE MANY histories of philosophy exist, and it has not been my purpose merely to add one to their number. My purpose is to e ...

this or that portion of my subject less adequate than it would have been if there bad been no need to remember "time's winged ch ...

verse is inexorably moving towards death? Is there such a thing as wisdom, or is what seems such merely the ultimate refinement ...

great period, from the eleventh to the fourteenth centuries, was dominated by the Catholic Church, except for a few great rebels ...

a powerful centralized State. Nothing was attributable to Roman philosophy, since there was none. During this long period, the G ...

Britain and Ireland, Germany, Scandinavia, and Poland. At first, outside Italy and southern France, his control over bishops and ...

monopoly of education, partly because the kings were perpetually at war with each other, but mainly because, with very few excep ...

of pleasure in reasoning, analysing, and systematizing. Although in art the Renaissance is still orderly, in thought it prefers ...

causes. In the main, it was a revolt of the northern nations against the renewed dominion of Rome. Religion was the force that h ...

came to be not one Protestantism, but a multitude of sects; not one philosophy opposed to scholasticism, but as many as there we ...

conformity to a moral code, but for the emotion that inspired it. Out of this attitude developed the cult of the hero, as it is ...

hostile to violent passion, and enemies of all the more profound forms of religion. This conflict existed in Greece before the r ...