The Story of Philosophy Author:Will Durant The lives and opinions of the Great Philosophers of the Western World. A brilliant and concise account of the lives and ideas of the great philosophers--Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Spinoza, Voltaire, Kant, Schopenhauer, Spencer, Nietzsche, Bergson, Croce, Russell, Santayana, James and Dewey. Written for the non-specialist, but with eminently read... more »able scholarship, The Story of Philosophy is a key book for the reader who wishes to survey the history and development of philosophical ideas in the Western world.« less