This book is a condensed history of the Western worldview from the ancient Greeks to the postmodernists. The evolution of Western thought has the dynamics, volume and beauty inherent only in epic drama: ancient Greece, the Hellenistic period and imperial Rome, Judaism and the rise of Christianity, the Catholic Church and the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment, Romanticism and so on - right up to until our time. Every century must remember its history anew. Each generation must again study and think through those ideas that have shaped its understanding of the world. For high school students of lyceums, gymnasiums, students of humanities, as well as for readers interested in the intellectual and spiritual history of civilization.