AUTHORITATIVE AND ACCESSIBLE THIS LANDMARK WORK IS THE FIRST SINGLEVOLUME HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY SHARED FOR DECADESA cerebrally enjoyable survey written with great clarity and touches of wit Sunday Times The story of philosophy is an epic tale an exploration of the ideas views and teachings of some of the most creative minds known to humanity. But there has been no comprehensive history of this great intellectual journey since 1945. Intelligible for students and eyeopening for philosophy readers A. C. Grayling covers with characteristic clarity and elegance subjects like epistemology metaphysics ethics logic and the philosophy of mind as well as the history of debates in these areas through the ideas of celebrated philosophers as well as less wellknown influential thinkers. The History of Philosophy takes the reader on a journey from the age of the Buddha Confucius and Socrates. Through Christianitys dominance of the European mind to the Renaissance and Enlightenment. On to Mill Nietzsche Sartre then the philosophical traditions of India China and the PersianArabic world.And finally into philosophy today.