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Since its first publication in 1945? Lord Russell's A Brief History of Western Philosophy hasbeen generally acclaimed whilst the excellent one-volume focus on the topic -- unmatched in its quality, its comprehensiveness, its erudition, its elegance and humor. In sixty-six sections he traces viewpoint in the rise of Greek culture for the introduction of rational research in the twentieth-century. One of the philosophers regarded 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 Truly Amazing, 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 finally the philosophers with whom Lord Russell herself is most strongly connected -- Cantor, Frege, and Whitehead, co author with Russell of the monumental Principia Mathematica.