Western Philosophy

Hi Veeky Forums, first time poster here. I was hoping to get a bit of advice, what would be the best book on the history of western philosophy? I want a bird's eye view before I delve deeper into specific philosophies.
Cheers fellas!

Copleston's A History of Philosophy is the gold standard. The last volume is kind of shit, though.

Was anyone here ever able to finish one of those history of philosophy books?

I tend to drop them after a hundred pages so, and by that time I already forgot a lot of what I read and my notes tend to make no sense to me whatsoever.

A Little History of Philosophy by Nigel Warburton is pretty good

in b4 muh greeks

Seconding this. Copleston and Kenney are best. Disregard Russell.

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This is the best advice

Thanks, I'll give it a whirl. Not sure I'll last 5000 pages tho lol

Cheers, this one looks a bit more approachable. I have no intention of reading the entire western cannon haha, just the dot points will do

Try Magee then

Will Durant might be a good one for you then.

Why?

Diogenes Laërtius or gtfo. fuck the pretenders

sophie's world bc you get to learn the history alongside a qt norwegian girl.

>written by a jesuit priest

It covers everything I want but how religious biased is it?

It's not.

Read Kenney. Copleston is very long and contains untranslated text in Greek, Latin, etc. (it was written for Catholic seminarians)

Only the first one.

Strauss and Cropsey's History of Political Philosophy is the best book you can get for this kind of overview of the history of Western thought.

I'm reading Kenney right now, it's pretty good.