Orem Library

A narrative about personalities and American history is told through the story of an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872 to talk about ideas.

Not only the titans of older days but the most famous modern philosophers are here presented and illuminated -- including Bergson, Croce, Russell, and Dewey. The book also examines the philosophers' setting in their own time and place, and their influence on our modern intellectual heritage. Here, in one book for the layman, is a whole university course in philosophy, written in Durant's unique, lively, and concise style.

A reference to philosophical knowledge profiles one hundred of the most important figures in philosophy, from Thales of Miletus to W.V.O. Quine, covering 2,500 years of philosophical thought.