Pulitzer Prize-winning author Will Durant chronicles the lives and ideas
of several key philosophical thinkers throughout history in this
informative and eminently readable text. Beginning with Socrates and
Plato and concluding with Friedrich Nietzsche, with twelve other
prominent philosophers in between, the author builds a history of
philosophy by showing how each thinker's ideas informed and influenced
the next generation. An essential read for anyone fascinated by the
development of Western philosophy.