From the Book - 1st American ed.
The history of Western philosophy through the lives of great philosophers: The early Greeks: Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes, Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Empedocles
Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir
Philosophy today: Foucault, Derrida, Popper, Kuhn, Feyerabend, Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse
- Schools of philosophy: Socrates: the father of Western philosophy
The Pre-Socratic philosophers
Greek schools after Socrates