Solon, 106
Sonnets (Shakespeare), 53
Sophocles, 41, 54, 58, 70, 83, 110
Spain, 71, 74-75, 112, 114
speech, development of, 93
Spencer, Herbert, 10, 30
Spengler, Oswald, 74, 80, 88, 104
Spenser, Edmund, 57
Spinoza, Baruch, 19, 23, 25, 30, 75, 86, 107, 114
steam engine, 115-16
Sterne, Laurence, 76, 86
Stoicism, Stoics, 12, 18
Story of Civilization,The (Durant), 1, 105
Stravinsky, Igor, 107
Summae (Thomas Aquinas), 17, 19
Sumner,William Graham, 68, 82
Swift, Jonathan, 76, 86
Symonds, John Addington, 73, 84
Tacitus, 111
Tagore, Rabindranath, 5-6, 107
Taine, Hippolyte Adolphe, 6, 72, 76, 78, 84, 85, 86, 87, 111
Taj Mahal, 72, 107, 112
Talleyrand, Charles Maurice de, 76
Talthybius, 37, 39-40
Tamerlane, 24
T’ang Dynasty, 110, 117
Tarde, Jean-Gabriel de, 10
Tasso, Torquato, 54
Tate, Nahum, 51
Temple at Jerusalem, 35
Temple prison, 26, 117
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 54, 78, 87
Thackeray,William Makepeace, 79, 87
Theater of Dionysius, 36
theology, 15, 16, 19
“thinker,” definition of, 11
thinkers, ten “greatest,” 8-30
Thirty Years’War, 74
Thomas Aquinas, Saint, 18-20, 30, 72
Thomson, J. A., 66, 82
Thoreau, Henry David, 79, 88
Thucydides, 57, 70, 83
Thutmose III, King of Egypt, 108
Timon of Athens (Shakespeare), 53, 85
Titian, 107
Tolstoi, Leo, 41, 54, 79, 87
tools, influence of, 99-100
Torquemada, Tomás de, 109
Trelawny, Edward John, 57-59
Trojan War, 33, 37
Troy, 32, 39
Tschaikowsky, Peter, 77-78, 107
Tse-Kung, 13
Tu Fu, 46
Turgenev, Ivan, 41, 79, 87
Turkey, 112
Turks, 71-72
Turner, Joseph Mallord William, 77, 107
Tuscany, 58
United States, 36, 60-62, 79, 91, 96, 105-6, 115, 117
Utopia, 21
Van Dyke, Anthony, 75, 107, 114
Vanini, Lucilio, 73
Vanity Fair (
Thackeray), 79, 87
Vasari, Giorgio, 73, 84
Vatican, 73
Vega, Lope de, 51, 74
Velázquez, Diego Rodriguez de Silva, 75, 91, 107, 114
Venus, 43
Verdi, Giuseppe, 77, 107
Verlaine, Paul, 54, 78
Vermeer, Jan, 114
Vesalius, Andreas, 73
Villon, François, 48, 54
Virgil, 44, 50-51, 54, 60, 71, 83, 107, 111
Voltaire, 24-27, 30, 51, 74, 76, 86, 107, 117
Wagner, Richard, 77, 107
War and Peace (Tolstoi), 79, 87
Washington, George, 107, 117
Waterloo, 104, 111
Watt, James, 115-16
Watteau, Antoine, 76
Wells, H. G., 5, 68-69, 73, 80, 82, 83, 84, 86, 87, 88
Westminster Abbey, 64-65
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill, 77, 107
Whitman,Walt, 4, 31, 59-63, 79, 88, 107
Williams, H. S., 69-70, 72, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 30, 76, 86
World War I, 80, 116
writing, 103-4
Zeno of Citium, 18, 30, 70
About the Author
Will Durant (1885-1981) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize (1968) and the Medal of Freedom (1977). He spent more than fifty years writing his critically acclaimed The Story of Civilization (the later volumes written in conjunction with his wife, Ariel) and capped off his magnificent career with Heroes of History, written when Durant was ninety-two. His book The Story of Philosophy is credited with introducing more people to the subject of philosophy than any other work. Throughout his life, Durant was passionate in his quest to bring philosophy out of the ivory towers of academia and into the lives of laypeople. A champion of human rights issues such as the brotherhood of man and social reform long before such issues were popular, Durant, through his writings, continues to entertain and educate readers the world over, inspiring millions of people to lead lives of greater perspective, understanding, and forgiveness.
About the Editor
John Little is the world’s foremost authority on the life, work, and philosophy of Will Durant. Little is the only person ever authorized by the Will Durant estate to review and use the entirety of Durant’s writings, personal letters, journals, and essays. He is the founder and director of The Will Durant Foundation (www.willdurant.com) and has lectured on philosophy in Trinity College, Dublin, and the National Museum of Film & Television (England). In addition, he writes books and magazine articles on philosophy, men’s health, and conditioning, and is an award-winning documentary filmmaker.
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