Includes index.

Summary: For the reader who has lain awake fretting over his tenuous grasp of the Aristotelian syllogism, or the ontological argument for the existence of God, or the nature of Kant's categorical imperative; or who simply struggles to tell his Frege from his Feuerbach, his Husserl from his Heidegger, his Saussure from his Sartre ..., help is finally at hand.

pt. One The Wisdom of the Ancients (6th century BC to 1st century AD) -- pt. Two Christianity Triumphant (1st century to 16th century) -- pt. Three The Scientific Revolution (16th century to 18th century) -- pt. Four The Landscape of Modernity (late 18th century to early 21st century).