{"product_id":"the-story-of-philosophy-9781950330928","title":"The Story of Philosophy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is a 1926 book by Will Durant, in which he profiles several prominent Western philosophers and their ideas, beginning with Socrates and Plato and on through Friedrich Nietzsche. Durant attempts to show the interconnection of their ideas and how one philosopher's ideas informed the next.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are nine chapters each focused on one philosopher, and two more chapters each containing briefer profiles of three early 20th century philosophers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book was published in 1926, with a revised second edition released in 1933. The work was preceded by a number of pamphlets in the Little Blue Books series of inexpensive worker education pamphlets. They proved so popular they were assembled into a single book and published in hardcover form by Simon \u0026amp; Schuster in 1926.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhilosophers profiled are, in order: Plato (with a section on Socrates), Aristotle, Francis Bacon, Baruch Spinoza (with a section on Descartes), Voltaire (with a section on Rousseau), Immanuel Kant (with a section on Hegel), Arthur Schopenhauer, Herbert Spencer, and Friedrich Nietzsche.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe final two chapters are devoted to European and then American philosophers. Henri Bergson, Benedetto Croce, and Bertrand Russell are covered in the tenth, and George Santayana, William James, and John Dewey are covered in the eleventh.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Classic Wisdom Reprint","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50864049160466,"sku":"9781950330928","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4a759331-a4e5-4b3f-8bff-f7f88b235d86.jpg?v=1748700657","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-story-of-philosophy-9781950330928","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}