The history of philosophy in biographies. Lewis J.G.

Before readers is a fundamental book on the history of philosophy, written by a famous English philosopher and literary critic George Henry Lewis (1817-1878). This is a unique work for his time, the purpose of which is to give an ordinary reader the opportunity to understand the course of the development of human thought, starting from its first systematic manifestations in ancient Greece.

The author set the task of presenting in the biographies of the great thinkers the origin, growth and development of philosophy, thus creating a brief set of almost all European philosophical teachings. The material of the book is divided into separate eras in the development of philosophy, characterized by the name of one or more thinkers; Their biographies, the history and critic of their teachings are given, in which aspects associated with the general course of the development of philosophy are shown.

The book is recommended primarily to a wide range of readers who want to get acquainted with the history of European philosophy. But a lot of interesting in it will find philosophers, historians of philosophy, methodologists of science, teachers, graduate students and students of philosophical faculties of higher educational institutions.