This document provides an outline of the history of philosophy. It begins with definitions of philosophy from an etymological, formal, popular, and technical perspective. It then discusses the beginning of philosophy in ancient Greece and outlines the major stages and periods of Greek, modern, and contemporary philosophy. The stages discussed include naturalistic, metaphysical, ethical, and religious periods of Greek philosophy as well as rationalism, empiricism, enlightenment, idealism, positivism, pragmatism, and existentialism within modern and contemporary philosophy.