Excerpt from History of Ancient Philosophy

Professor Windelband's Geschichte der Alton Philosophie is already well known to German philosophical readers as one of the famous Muller series of hand-books, and yet to that wider circle of English readers it is still a foreign book. In many quarters technical scholars of Greek philosophy have already commended its important innovations, and to these its erudition and scholarship are patent. In its translation, however, under the title of "The History of Ancient Philosophy," it will reach the general reader and serve as an introduction to the beginner in philosophy. I have personally never been able to see why the approaches to the study of philosophy have been made as difficult and uninviting as possible. In other hard subjects all sorts of helps and devices are used to allure the beginner within. Into philosophy the beginner has always had to force his way with no indulgent hand to help. In the past the history of thought has too often been entirely separated from the history of affairs, as if the subjective historical processes could have been possible without the objective concrete events. Professor Windelband has gone far to lead the general reader to the history of thought through the history of the affairs of the Greek nation. This is, to my mind, the difficult but absolutely necessary task of the historian of thought, if he wishes to reach any but technical philosophers.

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