Frost S.E. Basic Teachings of the Great Philosophers

An Anchor Book, Doubleday Dell Publishing Croup, 1962. — 315 p. — ISBN: 038503007X.A complete summary of the views of the most important philosophers in Western civilization. Each major field of philosophic inquiry comprises a separate chapter for greater accessibility. Includes Plato, Descartes, Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, Dewey, Sartre, and many others.
Everyone, whether he be plowman or banker, clerk or captain, citizen or ruler, is, in a real sense, a philosopher. Being human, having a highly developed brain and nervous system, he must think; and thinking is the pathway to philosophy.
The world in which we live will not let us rest. It keeps prodding us, challenging us with problems to be solved, demanding that we act wisely or be destroyed by the forces which inhabit our world In this way experiences are born-hungers and satisfactions, pains and pleasures, sights, feelings, sounds, and a host of others.