The first truly authoritative and accessible history of philosophy to cover both Western and Eastern traditions, from one of the world's most eminent thinkers
The story of philosophy is the story of who we are and why. An epic tale, spanning civilizations and continents, it explores the ideas, views, lives, and teachings of some of the most creative minds in history. But not since the long-popular classic, Bertrand Russell's History of Western Philosophy, published in 1945, has there been a comprehensive and entertaining single-volume history of this great intellectual world-shaping 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 capture of the European mind, to the Renaissance and Enlightenment, and on to Mill, Nietzsche, Sartre, and, finally, philosophy today. Bringing together these many threads that…
