Here, in vivid pictures and illuminating text, are more than three thousand years of world philosophy. From Socrates to Suzuki...from the Upanishads to the Existentialist...from Moses to Einstein...this fascinating pictorial survey embraces the major schools of philosophy, famous books of wisdom, and great major thinkers of both East and West. Contains nearly 1,000 portraits, photographs, facsimiles, archaeological illustrations and other pictorial material germane to the field of field of philosophy. Includes an Index.

(Key Words: Portraits, Dagobart D. Runes, Philosophers, Philosophy, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Rene Descartes, Immanuel Kant, Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, Plato, Baruch Spinoza, Voltaire, Karl Marx).