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Since its first publication in 1945, A Russell of Western Philosophy by Lord Russell has been universally cited as the outstanding work in one book on the subject, along with its completeness, clarity, erudition, grace and intellect. In seventy-six chapters he follows the philosophy from the rise of Greek civilization to the rise 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 Skeptics, the Epicureans, the Stoics, Plotinus, Ambrose, Jerome, Augustine , 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 finally the philosophers with whom Lord Russell best identified him – Cantor, Frege and Whitehead, co-author of Russell’s monumental Principia Mathematica.
