In contrast to many other scholarly continental works, Bochenski's monumental survey waited only five years for its English translation. The translator has made some minor emendations and has appended a few pages concerning Abélard's contribution to logic. A great contribution to the scholarship of this exciting field. -D. D. O.

Historical studies suggest that all ideas, including the philosophical, scientific, and religious, are relative to the culture in which they are formulated. After clarifying the concept of relativism, and exploring the epistemological reasons why knowledge is relative, Kaufman argues that these admissions are not fatal to the achievement of valid knowledge in philosophy and theology.--D. D. O.

The author interprets Bergson's five major works as an attempt, ultimately unsuccessful, to reconcile the rigor of scientific method with metaphysical knowledge. He concludes that Bergson's final solution--a separate faculty of metaphysical intuition--is not philosophy but religion. The value of this careful study is enhanced by a detailed bibliography of Bergson's writings.--D. D. O.

The primary thesis of this little book is that evil results only from the egotistical pursuit of private ends and is, in some measure, ineradicable from human affairs. As a clarification of moral evil this is persuasive. But the author's attempt to explain natural evil along the same lines is more questionable. --D. D. O.