Includes biographies of Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Epicurus, Marcus Aurelius, Francis Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza, Locke, Hume, Voltaire, Kant, Hegel, Schopenshauer, Emerson, Spenser, Nietzsche, William James, Bergson, and Santayana. Placing the accent upon the thinkers, rather than upon their thoughts, this book is an attempt to introduce the readers not only into the homes of the philosophers, but into their minds as well.