The product of eleven many years of research, The Story of Philosophy is an endlessly inspiring and instructive chronicle from the world’s greatest thinkers, from Socrates to Santayana. Written with exacting and scrupulous scholarship, it had been designed both to control the respect of educators and to catch the interest of the layman.

Durant lucidly describes the philosophical systems of such world-famous “monarchs of your brain” as Plato, Aristotle, Francis Bacon, Spinoza, Kant, Voltaire, and Nietzsche. With their concepts, he presents their flesh-and-blood biographies, putting their thoughts within their personal time and place and elucidating their influence on our contemporary intellectual heritage. This book is packed with intelligence and wit.

The Story of School of thought is an integral book for any reader who wishes to survey the annals and development of philosophical ideas under western culture.