Plato and Augustine

At the time of his death, Karl Jaspers, a leading existentialism philosopher of modern times, was preparing a universal history of philosophy, of which this book is a part, organized around those philosophers whose thinking has influenced and shaped the history of mankind. Their personalities and ideas from the substance of his work. Hence, he was not writing a history of philosophy in the traditional sense but a presentation of great philosophical ideas that have helped from our concepts of truth and reason, freedom and justice, our beliefs about God and the universe, good and evil, and right from wrong. This approach necessarily includes and emphasizes the religious thinkers also. Professor Jaspers aimed to lead the reader into proximity with the truly great and seminal thinkers and to expose him to the particular truth for which one stands--from back cover.