My aim.was to approach the story of philosophy as a journalist ought to: to rely only on primary sources, wherever they still existed to question everything that had become conventional wisdom and, above all, to try and explain it all as clearly as I could." He includes separate sections on the Milesians, the Pythagoreans, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Zeno of Elea, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, Democritus, the Sophists, Socrates and the Socratics, Plato, Aristotle, Epicureans, Stoics, and Sceptics and concludes with "The haven of piety" from late antiquity to the Renaissance.
In his 2000 publication, The Dream of Reason: A History of Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance, Gottlieb described the first of two explosions of thought that contributed to western philosophical traditions-such as the Athenian philosophers Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. The third volume in the trilogy-which will continue chronologically from Immanuel Kant-will complete the survey, that has been compared to Bertrand Russell's A History of Western Philosophy published in 1945. The second volume is The Dream of Enlightenment. The Dream of Reason: A History of Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance is a 2000 nonfiction book by Anthony Gottlieb, the first in a series of three volumes that introduce Western philosophy to a wide audience.
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