The World's Great Philosophers

by Arrington, Robert L.

• ISBN13: 9780631231462
• ISBN10: 0631231463
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-27
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The World's Great Philosophers provides an introduction to a selection of the most profound and influential thinkers in the history of philosophy.The 40 essays in this volume, written by an outstanding international assembly of scholars, provide cogent and accessible discussions of key philosophers from both Eastern and Western philosophical traditions - including Aquinas, Buddha, Confucius, Derrida, Heidegger, Kant, Laozi, Marx, Nietzsche, Plato, Sankara, and Wittgenstein. Together, the essays convey the historical panorama of philosophical thought on the nature of reality, the human condition, and basic human values.

Author Biography

Robert L. Arrington is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Georgia State University. He is author of Rationalism, Realism, and Relativism (1989) and Western Ethics (Blackwell, 1997). He is editor of A Companion to the Philosophers (Blackwell, 1999) and co-editor of three volumes of essays on the philosophy of Wittgenstein.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	viii
Preface	xi
Aquinas	1	(8)
Timothy Renick
Aristotle	9	(14)
Russell Dancy
Augustine	23	(7)
Vernon J. Bourke
Berkeley	30	(7)
Lisa J. Downing
The Buddha	37	(9)
Peter Harvey
Confucius	46	(7)
David L. Hall
Derrida	53	(6)
John C. Coker
Descartes	59	(10)
Georges Dicker
Dewey	69	(8)
James Gouinlock
Foucault	77	(5)
Ladelle McWhorter
Frege	82	(10)
Hans-Johann Glock
Hegel	92	(13)
Tom Rockmore
Heidegger	105	(13)
Thomas Sheehan
Hobbes	118	(8)
David Gauthier
Hume	126	(12)
James M. Humber
Husserl	138	(10)
J. N. Mohanty
James	148	(10)
Michael H. DeArmey
Kant	158	(15)
G. Felicitas Munzel
Kierkegaard	173	(6)
George J. Stack
Laozi (Lao Tzu)	179	(8)
Chad Hansen
Leibniz	187	(8)
Nicholas Jolley
Locke	195	(8)
E. J. Lowe
Marx	203	(8)
Allen W. Wood
Mencius	211	(6)
Kwong-Loi Shun
Mozi (Mo Tzu)	217	(6)
Chad Hansen
Nagarjuna	223	(6)
Bina Gupta
Nietzsche	229	(11)
Richard Schacht
Plato	240	(13)
C. D. C. Reeve
Quine	253	(8)
Roger F. Gibson
Ramanuja	261	(6)
Indira Carr
Rorty	267	(5)
Kai Nielsen
Russell	272	(8)
Peter Hylton
Sankara	280	(11)
Brian Carr
Sartre	291	(11)
William R. Schroeder
Socrates	302	(7)
John Beversluis
Spinoza	309	(7)
Genevieve Lloyd
Wittgenstein	316	(17)
P. M. S. Hacker
Xunzi (Hsun Tzu)	333	(8)
John Knoblock
Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu)	341	(10)
Chad Hansen
Zhu Xi (Chu Hsi)	351	(6)
Jonathan R. Herman
Index	357