Introduction. An invitation to philosophy
The Greeks and their world. Before Socrates ; Socrates ; Plato ; Aristotle ; The Cynics ; The Sceptics ; The Epicureans ; The Stoics
Christianity and philosophy. Saint Augustine ; Medieval philosophy
The beginnings of modern science. Copernicus ; Newton ; Machiavelli ; Francis Bacon ; Hobbes
The great rationalists. Descartes ; Spinoza ; Leibniz
The great empiricists. Locke ; Berkeley ; Hume ; Burke
Revolutionary French thinkers. Voltaire ; Diderot ; Rousseau
A golden century of German philosophy. Kant ; Schopenhauer ; Some comparisons of East and West ; Ficht ; Schelling ; Hegel ; Marx ; Nietzsche
Democracy and philosophy. The Utilitarians ; The American Pragmatists
20th century philosophy. Frege and modern logic ; Russell and analytic philosophy ; Wittgenstein and linguistic philosophy ; Existentialism ; Bergson and recent French philosophy ; Popper ; The future of philosophy.