A history of western philosophy: from the pre-Socratics to postmodernism

Introduction to the project -- The beginnings of Western philosophy: the pre-Socratics -- Socrates and the Sophists -- Plato -- Aristotle -- Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman periods: Epicureanism, Stoicism, Skepticism, and Neoplatonism -- Early Christian thought through Augustine -- Early medieval philosophy -- The High Middle Ages (I): Thomas Aquinas -- The High Middle Ages (II): Bonaventure, Scotus, Ockham -- Philosophy between the medieval and modern periods -- Descartes and the beginning of modern philosophy -- Continental rationalism: Spinoza and Leibniz -- British empiricism: Locke and Berkeley -- The Scottish enlightenment (I): David Hume -- The Scottish enlightenment (II): Thomas Reid -- Enlightenment deism, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Mary Wollstonecraft -- Immanuel Kant -- German idealism and Hegel -- Karl Marx -- S²ren Kierkegaard -- John Stuart Mill and nineteenth-century positivism -- Friedrich Nietzsche -- Conclusions: some lessons from the history of Western philosophy.

Plato. Aristotle. Augustine. Hume. Kant. Hegel. Every student of philosophy needs to know the history of the philosophical discourse such giants have bequeathed us. Philosopher C. Stephen Evans brings his expertise to this daunting task as he surveys the history of Western philosophy, from the Pre-Socratics to Nietzsche and postmodernism--and every major figure and movement in between.