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History of Western Philosophy
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First published in 1946, History of Western Philosophy went on to become the best-selling philosophy book of the twentieth century. A dazzlingly ambitious project, it remains unchallenged to this day as the ultimate introduction to Western philosophy. Providing a sophisticated overview of the ideas that have perplexed people from time immemorial, it is 'long on wit, intelligence and curmudgeonly scepticism', as the New York Times noted, and it is this, coupled with the sheer brilliance of its scholarship, that has made Russell's History of Western Philosophy one of the most important philosophical works of all time.
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Index
a priori knowledge 138–9, 556, 641–2
Abbasids 392
Abélard, Peter 404–6, 407
Absolute 662–6, 667, 668, 717
absolute monarchy 508–9, 574
absolute space 77, 496
absolute time 496
Academy 67; Augustine, St 336–7; closure by Justinian 347; Roman influence 263; Scepticism 225–6, 228; Stoicism 242
acceleration: Galileo 489–90
Achaeans 19
Acragas, Sicily 60
action 715; Bergson, H. 718–20, 721–2
actuality 163–4, 166
Adam: divine right of kings 564, 565, 566; sin 335, 339–40
Adelard of Bath 203, 406
adjectives: Aristotle 159–61
Aenesidemus 228–9
Aeschylus 65, 85, 200
aestheticism, romantic movement 617
Aëtius 206
Africa: Justinian reconquest 348; Mohammedan conquest 391; see also North Africa
Agatharcus 200
Agnes, Empress 384–5
agriculture: classical Greece 20, 24, 25; Locke, J. 577–8
air: Anaxagoras 69; Anaximander 36; Anaximenes 36; Aristotle 198; Empedocles 61, 62
Alaric, King of the Goths 314, 341
Alberic of Tusculum 383, 384
Albertus Magnus 394, 417, 418, 441
Albigenses 410, 413–14, 417
Albumazar 429–30
alchemy 50, 267, 396, 428, 429
Alcibiades 96
Alcuin 367, 368–9
Alexander II, Pope 386
Alexander VI, Pope 460, 466, 468, 471
Alexander the Great 105, 211–14, 257; Aristotle 157–8, 179; Diogenes 222; influence of Hellenism on West 264, 266; treaties 217
Alexander the Paphlagonian 264–5
Alexandria: Cynics 223; Euclid 202; Hellenism 208, 215; Jews 298–9, 302, 342; Origen 307; Plotinus 271; Ptolemy 214
Alfarabi 429
Algazel ...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- BOOK ONE Ancient Philosophy
- BOOK TWO Catholic Philosophy
- BOOK THREE Modern Philosophy
- Index