Translator's Preface
Author's Preface

introduction

Book 1: Ancient Philosophy

Part 1: Pre-Socratics
1.
The development of Greek civilization / 2.
Miletus School / 3.
Pythagoras / 4.
Heraclitus / 5.
Parmenides /
6.
Empedocles / 7.
Culture of Athens / 8.
Anaxagoras / 9 Atomists / 10.
Protagoras

Part 2: Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle
11.
Socrates / 12.
Spartan influence / 13.
The Origins of Plato's Thought / 14.
Plato's utopia /
15.
Idealism / 16.
Plato's theory of the immortality of the soul / 17.
Plato's Cosmology / 18.
Plato's knowledge and perception /
19.
Aristotle's Metaphysics / 20.
Aristotle's Ethics / 21.
Aristotle's Politics /
22.
Aristotle's Logic / 23.
Aristotle's Physics / 24.
Early Greek mathematics and astronomy

Part 3: Ancient Philosophy After Aristotle
25.
Hellenistic World / 26.
Cynicism and Skepticism / 27.
Epicureanism / 28.
Stoicism /
29.
Culture of the Roman Empire / 30.
Plotinus

Book 2 Catholic Philosophy

Introduction to Volume 2

Part 1: Patristic Philosophy
1.
The Development of Judaism / 2.
Christianity in the early 4th century / 3.
The Three Doctors of the Church /
4.
Augustine's Philosophy and Theology / 5.
5th and 6th centuries / 6.
Saints Benedict and Gregory the Great

Part II: Scholastic Philosophy
7.
The Papacy in the Dark Ages / 8.
The Thought of John Scotus / 9.
11th Century Church Reform /
10.
Islamic Culture and Philosophy / 11.
12th century / 12.
13th century / 13.
St. Thomas Aquinas /
14.
The Scholastic Philosophers of the Franciscan Order / 15.
The decline of the papacy

Volume 3: Modern and Contemporary Philosophy

Part 1: From the Renaissance to Hume
1.
General Features / 2.
Italian Renaissance Movement / 3.
Machiavelli / 4.
Erasmus and Thomas More /
5.
Reformation and Counter-Reformation / 6.
Advances in Science / 7.
Francis Bacon / 8.
Hobbes's Leviathan /
9.
Descartes / 10.
Spinoza / 11.
Leibniz / 12.
Philosophical Liberalism / 13.
Locke's epistemology /
14.
Locke's Political Philosophy / 15.
Locke's Influence / 16.
Berkeley / 17.
Hume

Part 2: From Rousseau to the Present
18.
Romantic Movement / 19.
Rousseau / 20.
Kant / 21.
The flow of thought in the 19th century / 22.
Hegel / 23.
Byron /
24.
Schopenhauer / 25.
Nietzsche / 26.
Utilitarianism / 27.
Karl Marx / 28.
Bergson /
29.
William James / 30.
John Dewey / 31.
Logical-analytic philosophy

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Expanding the horizons of Western philosophy from ancient philosophy to modern analytic philosophy
The life's work of Bertrand Russell, a representative intellectual of the 20th century

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A monumental masterpiece by Nobel Prize winner Bertrand Russell
Russell's History of Western Philosophy now exclusively published in Korea.

This book is largely divided into three sections: ‘Ancient Philosophy,’ ‘Catholic Philosophy,’ and ‘Modern and Contemporary Philosophy.’
'Ancient Philosophy' examines the flow of thought before and after the time of Socrates, focusing on Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, including Pythagoras, Epicureanism, and Stoicism.
Through this, it tells the story of the rise of Greek civilization, the influence and culture of Athens, Sparta, the Hellenistic world, and the Roman Empire.
According to Russell, ancient Greek philosophy was divided into two tendencies: one that valued passion and was absorbed in religion, and the other that valued experience and promoted rationalism, and these two tendencies dominated Greek culture.
And the latter tendency, which had sunk beneath the surface in the Middle Ages, was revived in modern philosophy.
So to speak, the Greek civilization, which gave birth to philosophy, also contributed to the emergence of medieval Christian civilization, became the driving force of the Renaissance movement, and is the ideological origin of modern philosophy.


In 'Catholic Philosophy', we examine the establishment and development of church philosophy, focusing on patristic and scholastic philosophy, and cover the development of Judaism, the rise and fall of the papal system, and Islamic culture and philosophy.
At that time, Catholic philosophy played a role in unifying European society, and the conflict between orthodox faith and heretical ideas within the Catholic Church became the impetus for reforming the Catholic system and the beginning of the Reformation.

In 'Modern and Contemporary Philosophy,' we examine major figures and trends such as Descartes, Locke, Kant, utilitarianism, and logical-analytic philosophy, while adding the Renaissance, modern scientific development, religious reform, liberalism, romanticism, and 19th-century thought to provide an understanding of the social and cultural background of the time.
Russell viewed modern and contemporary philosophy as the result of efforts to push subjectivism to its extreme or to break away from it.
Of course, it also covers the Enlightenment philosophy, positivism, utilitarianism, and romanticism contained in modern and contemporary philosophy.


This book, which discusses the entire history of Western philosophy, not only provides a clear overview of the flow of major doctrines, but also allows one to grasp the representative central ideas of famous intellectuals at a glance.