For those who have always wanted to learn philosophy but were too intimidated, here is a book that finally makes philosophic ideas and concepts accessible. The Three Sages: Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle; The Decline and Fall of the Hellenistic Period; The Medieval Mind; The Renaissance Period; Humanism; The Protestant Reformation; The Scientific Revolution; British Empiricism; French Enlightenment; German Idealism; Utilitarianism; Phenomenology and Existentialism; Modern and Postmodem Philosophers; Soclology and Anthropology; Psychology; Eastern School of Thought; The Big Three Religions; The Forgotten Philosophers; Philosophy and the Couch Potato.