The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the Greatest Philosophers

A brilliant and concise account of the lives and ideas of the great philosophers — Plato, Aristotle, Francis Bacon, Baruch Spinoza, Voltaire, Immanuel Kant, Arthur Schopenhauer, Herbert Spencer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Henri Bergson, Benedetto Croce, Bertrand Russell, George Santayana, William James, and John Dewey. Will Durant, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1968 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977, has taken the trouble to retell the history of philosophy in interesting and readable form. The Story of Philosophy has served as a gateway to the ideas of the great thinkers for millions of readers.