The ABC of Scholastic Philosophy

It is not a summary of philosophical problems, which the beginner cannot digest and which may engender in him a spirit of skepticism.

For a like reason Cotter does not give an outline of the history of philosophy with the same problems arranged by periods.

Instead, he confined himself to a few important data on the principal philosophers of past ages, and the author tried to sketch the intellectual equipment with which the student is supposed to begin philosophy.