ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book presents a series of generalizations upon what it is that makes a great philosopher. Some readers will already have remarked upon the fact that our list contains the name of no woman; and the cynic may perhaps be tempted to say that this is not surprising, since the female character is that about which man philosophizes. For some years the philosophical world has been disturbed by a conflict which even today is by no means settled. This is a conflict between two conceptions of the function of philosophical enquiry. The book provides merely the briefest sketch of the present state of philosophical enquiry, and it will be open to the criticism of being incomplete.
