Sir Anthony Kenny here tells the fascinating story of the birth of philosophy and its remarkable flourishing in the ancient Mediterranean world. This is the initial volume of a four-book set in which Kenny will unfold a magisterial new history of Western philosophy, the first major single-author history of philosophy to appear in decades. Analytic and continental philosophy are not defined on equal terms though; analytic philosophy is defined in terms of its beliefs and methodologies (founded on the western system of logic with its roots in ancient Greece), whereas continental philosophy refers to a wide variety of philosophies associated with continental Europe, especially.