Lectures on the History of Philosophy

“Hegel tells the story of philosophy from Thales to his own day — not as a gallery of errors and rival opinions, but as the development of one reason, each philosophy a necessary stage, from water and number, being and becoming, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, through the long night of the Middle Ages, to Descartes, Spinoza, Kant and the idealism of his own age.”