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Philosophy : 100 essential thinkers : the ideas that have shaped our world

Who am I? What is justice? What does it mean to live a good life? Many of the fundamental questions of philosophy are questions that we begin to ask ourselves as young adults when we look at the world around us, at ourselves, and try to make sense of things. This engaging and accessible book invites the reader to explore the questions and arguments of philosophy through the work of one hundred of the greatest thinkers within the Western intellectual tradition. Covering philosophical, scientific, political and religious thought over a period of 2500 years, Philosophy will serve as an excellent guide for those interested in knowing about individual thinkers--such as Plato, Aristotle, Rousseau and Nietzsche, to name just a few--and the questions and observations that inspired them to write. By presenting individual thinkers, details of their lives and the concerns and circumstances that motivated them, this book makes philosophy come to life as a relevant and meaningful approach to thinking about the contemporary world. A lucid and engaging book full of thought-provoking quotations, as well as clear explanations and definitions, Philosophy is sure to encourage students and laymen alike to investigate further
eBook, English, 2012
Arcturus, London, 2012
Biographies
1 online resource (382 pages)
9781848589575, 1848589573
919258192
The Presocratics
Thales of Miletus
Pythagoras of Samos
Xenophanes of Colophon
Heraclitus
The Eleatics
Parmenides of Elea
Zeno of Elea
The Academics
Socrates
Plato
Aristotle
The Atomists
Democritus
Epicurus
The Cynics
Diogenes of Sinope
The Stoics
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Philo of Alexandria
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Marcus Aurelius
The Sceptics
Sextus Empiricus
The Neoplatonists
Plotinus
The Christians
St Augustine of Hippo
Boethius
The Scholastics
St Anselm
St Thomas Aquinas
John Duns Scotus
William of Occam
The Age of Science
Nicolaus Copernicus
Niccolo Machiavelli
Desiderius Erasmus
Thomas More
Francis Bacon
Galileo Galilei
Thomas Hobbes
Sir Isaac Netwon
The Rationalists
Rene Descartes
Antoine Arnauld
Nicolas Malebranche
Benedict de Spinoza
Gottfried von Leibniz
The Empiricists
John Locke
David Hume
Thomas Reid
Voltaire
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Denis Diderot
The Idealists
George Berkeley
Immanuel Kant
Johann Schiller
Frederick Shelling
Georg Hegel
Arthur Schopenhauer
The Liberals
Adam Smith
Mary Wollstonecraft
Thomas Paine
Jeremy Bentham
John Stuart Mill
Auguste Comte
The Evolutionists
Charles Darwin
Henri Louis Bergson
A.N. Whitehead
The Pragmatists
Ernst Mach
Charles Peirce
William James
John Dewey
The Materialists
Karl Marx
Friedrich Engels
Vladimir Lenin
Sigmund Freud
Carl Jung
John Maynard Keynes
The Extistentialists
Soren Kierkegaard
Friedrich Nietzsche
Edmund Husserl
Martin Heidegger
Jean-Paul Sartre
Albert Camus
Simone de Beauvoir
The Linguistic Turn
Gottlob Frege
Bertrand Russell
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ferdinand de Saussure
George Edward Moore
Moritz Schlick
Lev Vygotsky
Rudolph Carnap
A.J. Ayer
Alfred Tarski
J.L. Austin
Gilbert Ryle
Noam Chomsky
The Postmodernists
Claude Levi-Strauss
Michel Foucault
Jacques Derrida
The New Scientists
Emile Durkheim
Albert Einstein
Karl Popper
Kurt Godel
Alan Turing
B.F. Skinner
Thomas Kuhn
Paul Feyerabend
W.V.O. Quine