Socrates and Jesus : the argument that shaped western civilization / Michael Hattersley.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-195) and index.

Socrates and Jesus -- The historical Socrates -- The Socrates legend -- Philosophy -- Science -- The historical Jesus -- The Jesus legend -- The argument between Socrates and Jesus -- Eros -- Agape -- Eros and agape -- Socrates and Jesus fight for the Roman Empire -- The Augustinian synthesis -- Socrates and Jesus in the Middle Ages -- The high Middle Ages and the synthesis of Aquinas -- Dante -- Socrates, Jesus, and the Renaissance -- Cosimo de Medici (1389-1464) -- Lorenzo de Medici (1449-92) -- Savonarola (1452-98) -- Shakespeare -- The resurgence of agape during the Protestant Reformation -- Martin Luther (1483-1546) -- Reformation and revolution -- Reason and nightmare : the Enlightenment -- The Enlightenment -- Descartes (1596-1650) -- Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) -- Isaac Newton (1642-1727) -- David Hume (1711-1776) -- Voltaire -- Rousseau -- Romanticism -- Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich hegel (1770-1831) -- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) -- The twentieth century -- Charles Darwin (1809-1882) -- Karl Marx (1818-1883) -- Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) -- All along the watchtower -- John Ashbery's last stand for erotic epistemology.