Revised Edition A complete summary of the views of the most important philosophers since the beginning of Western civilization. Each major field of philosophical inquiry is treated in a separate chapter, so that each chapter can be read as a complete unit, without reference to the others. Contents: The Nature of the Universe * Man's Place in the Universe * What Is Good and What Is Evil? * The Nature of God * Fate Versus Free Will * The Soul and Immortality * Man and the State * Man and Education * Mind and Matter * Ideas and Thinking * Some Recent Approaches to Philosophy.