History of Western Philosophy (A Touchstone book)

著者 : BertrandRussell

• Touchstone (1967年10月30日発売)

作品紹介・あらすじ

Hailed as "lucid and magisterial" by "The" "Observer," this book is universally acclaimed as the outstanding one-volume work on the subject of Western philosophy. Considered to be one of the most important philosophical works of all time, the "History of Western Philosophy" is a dazzlingly unique exploration of the ideologies of significant philosophers throughout the ages--from Plato and Aristotle through to Spinoza, Kant and the twentieth century. Written by a man who changed the history of philosophy himself, this is an account that has never been rivaled since its first publication over sixty years ago. Since its first publication in 1945, Lord Russell's "A History of Western Philosophy" is still unparalleled in its comprehensiveness, its clarity, its erudition, its grace, and its wit. In seventy-six chapters he traces philosophy from the rise of Greek civilization to the emergence of logical analysis in the twentieth century. Among the philosophers considered are: Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, the Atomists, Protagoras, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Cynics, the Sceptics, the Epicureans, the Stoics, Plotinus, Ambrose, Jerome, Augustine, Benedict, Gregory the Great, John the Scot, Aquinas, Duns Scotus, William of Occam, Machiavelli, Erasmus, More, Bacon, Hobbes, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, the Utilitarians, Marx, Bergson, James, Dewey, and lastly the philosophers with whom Lord Russell himself is most closely associated--Cantor, Frege, and Whitehead, coauthor with Russell of the monumental "Principia Mathematica."

感想・レビュー・書評

[Seven Starsさんの感想 · 2006年12月18日]

Russellは文章がうまく、木を見て森を見ずといった専門性のワナに捉われることなく、彼一流の理解に基づいてバックグラウンドもきちんと説明してくれるので、一般人にもとっつきやすい。この本を抱えた外国人旅行者も上野の駅あたりで見かける。

私は近代の部分を日本語で読み、古代哲学の部分を原書で読んだ。古代の宗教会議の変遷なども説明しており、役に立つ。気になる哲学者の部分だけ読み返すこともある。