The prospects Ol- Industrial civilization bertrand russell history of western philosophy
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RODUCTION TO MATHEMATICAL PHILOSOPHY
THE ANALYSIS OF MIND
OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE EXTERNAL WORLD
AN OUTLINE OP PHILOSOPHY
THE PHILOSOPHY OF LEIBNIZ
AN INQUIRY INTO MEANING AND TRUTH
POWER
IN PRAISE OF IDLENESS
THE CONQUEST OF HAPPINESS
SCEPTICAL ESSAYS
THE SCIENTIFIC OUTLOOK
MYSTICISM AND LOGIC
MARRIAGE AND MORALS
EDUCATION AND THE SOCIAL OKDLK
ON EDUCATION
FREEDOM AND ORGANIZATION, l8l4~I<M4
PRINCIPLES OF SOCIAL RECONSTRUCTION
ROADS TO FREEDOM
JUSTICE IN WAR-FIMi:
FREE THOUGHT AND OFFICIAL PROPAGANDA
THE PROBLEM OF CHINA
With Scott NcarinK
BOLSHEVISM AND THE Wt*T
With Dora Russell
THE PROSPECTS Ol- INDUSTRIAL CIVILIZATION
BERTRAND RUSSELL
HISTORY OF
WESTERN
PHILOSOPHY
and its Connection with Political
and Social Circumstances from
the Earliest Times to
the Present Dav
GEORGE ALLEN AND UNWIN LTD
FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1446
SFCOND IMPRESSION 1947
All rights resented
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PREFACE
A FEW words of apology and explanation are called for if
this book is to escape even more severe censure than it
doubtless deserves.
Apology is due to the specialists on various schools and indi-
vidual philosophers. With the possible exception of Leibniz,
every philosopher of whom I treat is better known to some others
than to me. If, however, books covering a Wide field are to be
written at all, it is inevitable, since we are not immortal, that those
who write such books should spend less time on any one part
than can be spent by a man who concentrates on a single author
or a brief period. Some, whose scholarly austerity is unbending,
will conclude that books covering a wide field should not be
written at all, or, if written, should consist of monographs by a
multitude of authors. There is, however, something lost when
many authors co-operate. If there is any unity in the movement
of history, if there is any intimate relation between what goes
before and what comes later, it is necessary, for setting this forth,
that earlier and later periods should be synthesized in a single
mind. The student of Rousseau may have difficulty in doing
justice to his connection with the Sparta of Plato
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