这本引人入胜的书介绍了西方哲学中的伟大思想家，并探讨了他们关于世界以及如何**的在其中生活的最有说服力的思想。在四十个简短章节中，奈杰尔·沃伯顿（Nigel Warburton）引导我们按时间顺序浏览哲学史上的重要思想。他讲述了有趣又古怪的关于发人深省的哲学家的生死故事，从宁愿选择被毒死，也不要没有独立思考自由地活着的苏格拉底到提出了困扰我们自己时代的令人不安的哲学和伦理学问题的彼得·辛格（Peter Singer）。

沃伯顿不仅使哲学通俗易懂，而且他鼓励读者以苏格拉底的传统进行思考，争论，推理和提问。《哲学小史》展示了人类寻求哲学理解的广阔前景，并鼓励所有人参加讨论。

For readers of E. H. Gombrich's A Little History of the World, an equally irresistible volume that brings history's greatest philosophers to life

Philosophy begins with questions about the nature of reality and how we should live. These were the concerns of Socrates, who spent his days in the ancient Athenian marketplace asking awkward questions, disconcerting the people he met by showing them how little they genuinely understood. This engaging book introduces the great thinkers in Western philosophy and explores their most compelling ideas about the world and how best to live in it.

In forty brief chapters, Nigel Warburton guides us on a chronological tour of the major ideas in the history of philosophy. He provides interesting and often quirky stories of the lives and deaths of thought-provoking philosophers from Socrates, who chose to die by hemlock poisoning rather than live on without the freedom to think for himself, to Peter Singer, who asks the disquieting philosophical and ethical questions that haunt our own times.

Warburton not only makes philosophy accessible, he offers inspiration to think, argue, reason, and ask in the tradition of Socrates. A Little History of Philosophy presents the grand sweep of humanity's search for philosophical understanding and invites all to join in the discussion.