The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers by Will Durant

547 Pages·2006·24.95 MB·English

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EDITORS PREFACE xi
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION xix
INTRODUCTION: On the Uses of i
Philosophy
CHAPTER ONE
Plato
1 The Context of Plato
5
2 Socrates 8
The of Plato
3 15
Preparation
18
The Ethical Problem
4
The Political Problem 21
5
6 The Problem
23
Psychological
The Solution
7 25
Psychological
8 The Political Solution
33
The Ethical Solution
9 38
10 Criticism
40
CHAPTER TWO
Aristotle and Greek Science
1 The Historical
49
Background
2 The Work of Aristotle
53
The Foundation of
3 Logic 57
The of Science 61
4
Organization
i Greek Science before Aristotle 61
ii Aristotle as a Naturalist
64
m The Foundation of
65
Biology
and the Nature of God 68
5
Metaphysics
6 and the Nature of Art
70
Psychology
Ethics and the Nature of
72
7 Happiness
8 Politics
77
i Communism and Conservatism
77
ii and 80
Marriage Aristocracy
in and
83
Democracy Aristocracy
Criticism 86
9
10 Later Life and Death
89
CHAPTER THREE
Francis Bacon
1 From Aristotle to the Renaissance
93
2 The Political Career of Francis Bacon 102
The 106
3 Essays
The Great Reconstruction
4 113
i The Advancement of
115
Learning
ii The New 122
Organon
m The of Science
127
Utopia
Criticism
5 131
6
135
Epilogue
CHAPTER FOUR
1 Historical and
139
Biographical
i The of the
Odyssey Jews 139
ii The Education of
Spinoza 141
m Excommunication
144
iv Retirement and Death
147
2 The Treatise on and the State
Religion 153
The of the Intellect
3
Improvement 156
The Ethics 1
4 5
9
i Nature and God
161