Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents: Socrates to Sartre and beyond : a history of philosophy -- Part I. Ancient Greek philosophy -- The Sophists and Socrates -- Plato -- Aristotel -- Part II. Hellenistic and medieval philosophy -- Classical philosophy after Aristotel -- Augustine -- Philosophy in the early middle ages -- Aquinas and his late medieval successors -- Part III. Early modern philosophy -- Philosophy during the renaissance -- Rationalism on the continent -- Empiricism in Britain -- Part IV. Late modern and 19th century philosophy -- Kant -- German idealism -- Utilitarianism and positivism -- Kierkegaard,Marx, and Nietzsche -- Part V. 20th Century and contemporary philosophy -- Pragmatism and process philosophy -- Analytic philosophy -- Phenomenology and existentialism -- Recent philosophy