Garden City Publishing Co., Inc., 1933 2nd edition, 592 pages Flaws and markings can be seen in photos All pages intact - good copy The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers is a 1926 book by Will Durant, in which he profiles several prominent Western philosophers and their ideas, beginning with Socrates and Plato and on through Friedrich Nietzsche. Durant attempts to show the interconnection of their ideas and how one philosopher's ideas informed the next.