Since its first publication in 1945, Lord Russell's A History of Western Philosophy has been universally acclaimed as the outstanding one-volume work on the subject -- unparalleled in its comprehensiveness, its clarity, its erudition, its grace and wit. In seventy-six chapters he traces philosophy from the rise of Greek civilization to the emergence of logical analysis in the twentieth century. Among the philosophers considered are: Pythagoras, the Atomists, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Cynics, the Sceptics,the Stoics, Augustine, Benedict, Gregory the Great, Bacon, Hobbes, Descartes and many others.