History of Philosophy

Thorough and lucid survey of Western philosophy from pre-Socratics to mid 20th century major figures, currents, trends. Valuable section on contemporary philosophy Brentano, Ortega, Heidegger, others. "Brevity and clarity of exposition..." Ethics.

Introduction
  GREEK PHILOSOPHY
    The Suppositions of Greek Philosophy
    The Pre-Socratics
    I The Milesian School
    2 The Pythagoreans
    3 Parmenides and the Eleatic School
    4 From Heraclitus to Democritus
    The Sophists and Socrates
    I The Sophists
    2 Socrates
    Plato
    I The Ideas
    2 The Structure of Reality
    3 Problems Raised by the Theory of Ideas
    4 Man and the City
    5 Philosophy
    Aristotle
    I The Levels of Knowledge
    2 Metaphysics
    3 The Modes of Being
    4 Substance
    5 Logic
    6 Physics
    7 The Theory of the Soul
    8 Ethics
    9 Politics
    The Ideal of the Wise Man
    I Ethical Philosophies in the Socratic Tradition
    2 Stoicism
    3 Epicureanism
    4 Skepticism and Eclecticism
    Neoplatonism
  CHRISTIANITY
    Christianity and Philosophy
    Patristic Speculation
    St. Augustine
    I Life and Character
    2 Philosophy
    3 The Significance of St. Augustine
  MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY
    Scholasticism
    I The Era of Transition
    2 The Nature of Scholasticism
    The Great Themes of the Middle Ages
    I The Creation
    2 The Universals
    3 Reason
    The Medieval Philosophers
    I Scotus Erigena
    2 St. Anselm
    3 The Twelfth Century
    4 Eastern Philosphies
    5 The Spiritual World of the Thirteenth Century
    6 St. Bonaventure
    7 Aristotelico-Scholastic Philosophy
    8 Roger Bacon
    9 Christian Philosophy in Spain
    10 Duns Scotus and Occam
    11 Meister Eckhart
    12 The Last Phase of Medieval Philosophy
  MODERN PHILOSOPHY
    The Renaissance
      The Renaissance World
      I The Spiritual Circumstances
      2 Humanist Thought
      The Beginning of Modern Philosophy
      I Nicholas of Cusa
      2 Giordano Bruno
      3 Modern Physics
      4 Spanish Scholasticism
    Seventeenth-Century Idealism
      Descartes
      I The Cartesian Problem
      2 Man
      3 God
      4 The World
      5 Rationalism and Idealism
      Cartesianism in France
      I Malebranche
      2 The Religious Thinkers
      Spinoza
      I Metaphysics
      2 Ethics
      3 Being as a Desire to Survive
      Leibniz
      I Leibniz' Philosophic Situation
      2 Leibniz' Metaphysics
      3 Theory of Knowledge
      4 Theodicy
    Empiricism
      British Philosophy
      I Francis Bacon
      2 Hobbes
      3 Deism
      4 Locke
      5 Berkeley
      6 Hume
      7 The Scottish School
      The Enlightenment
      I The Enlightenment in France
      2 "The "Aufklärung" in Germany"
      3 Vico's Doctrine of History
      4 Spanish Philosophers of the Enlightenment
      The Formation of the Modern Epoch
      I Philosophy and History
      2 The Rationalist State
      3 The Reformation
      4 Modern Society
      5 The Loss of God
    German Idealism
      Kant
      I Transcendental Idealism
      2 "The "Critique of Pure Reason"
      3 Practical Reason
      The Problem of Kantian Philosophy
      I The Interpretations of Kant's Philosophy
      2 Theory of Knowledge
      3 Being as a Desire to Survive
      4 Philosophy
      Fichte
      I Fichte's Metaphysics
      2 Fichte's Idealism
      Schelling
        The Phases of Schelling's Philosophy
      Hegel
      I The Outline of Hegel's Philosophy
      2 "The "Phenomenology of the Spirit"
      3 "The "Logic"
      4 The Philosophy of Nature
      5 The Philosophy of the Spirit
      The Thought of the Romantic Age
      I The Literary Movements
      2 The School of History
      3 Schleiermacher and the Philosophy of Religion
      4 Derivations of Idealism
      5 Schopenhauer
    Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
      The Triumph over Sensationalism
      I Maine de Biran
      2 Spiritualism
      Comte's Positivism
      I History
      2 Society
      3 Science
      4 The Signifiance of Positivism
      Philosophy of Positivist Inspiration
      I The French Thinkers
      2 English Philosophy
      3 The Positivist Era in Germany
      The Discovery of Life
      I Kierkegaard
      2 Nietzsche
      The Return to Traditional Metaphysics
      I The First Attempts
      2 Gratry
    Contemporary Philosophy
      Brentano
      I Bretano's Position in the History of Philosophy
      2 Psychology
      3 Ethics
      4 The Existence of God
      The Idea of Life
      I Dilthey
      2 Simmel
      3 Bergson
      4 Blondel
      5 Unamuno
      English-Language Philosophy
      I Pragmatism
      2 Personalism
      3 Recent Trends
      Husserl's Phenomenology
      I Ideal Objects
      2 Meanings