A History of Western Philosophy: From the Pre-Socratics to Postmodernism (Biblia.com)

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Plato. Aristotle. Augustine. Hume. Kant. Hegel. These names and the philosophies associated with them ring through the minds of every student and scholar of philosophy. And in their search for knowledge, every student of philosophy needs to know the history of the philosophical discourse such giants have bequeathed us. Noted philosopher C. Stephen Evans brings his expertise to this daunting...

of human existence. All of these existential phenomenologies incorporated the existential emphasis on the self as an achievement rather than simply as a substance. Sartre in particular seemed to capture the mood of Europe before and after World War II, emphasizing individual human existence as a free creation. Sartre’s existentialism differed from both Nietzsche and Kierkegaard. Unlike Nietzsche, he rejected the idea that humans can be defined by some natural category such as the will to power, stressing

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