The Great Philosophers

by Stangroom, Jeremy; Garvey, James

• ISBN13: 9781848370180
• ISBN10: 1848370180
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-07-09
• Publisher: Arcturus Pub

Summary

Philosophy has been under way for more than two thousand years. The Great Philosophers traces the bigegst and most influential thoughts in philosophy's long stride through histoty, beginning with the Ancient Greeks and early Romans, the first philosophical thinkers in the West, to whom so much is owed.

Table of Contents

Ancient & Medieval
Socrates	p. 8
Plato	p. 12
Aristotle	p. 16
Marcus Aurelius	p. 20
Saint Thomas Aquinas	p. 24
Renaissance
Niccolò Machiavelli	p. 28
Francis Bacon	p. 32
17th Century
Thomas Hobbes	p. 36
René Descartes	p. 40
Blaise Pascal	p. 44
John Locke	p. 48
Baruch Spinoza	p. 52
Gottfried Leibniz	p. 56
18th Century
George Berkeley	p. 60
Voltaire	p. 64
David Hume	p. 68
Jean-Jacques Rousseau	p. 72
Immanuel Kant	p. 76
Thomas Paine	p. 80
Jeremy Bentham	p. 84
Georg Hegel	p. 88
19th Century
Arthur Schopenhauer	p. 92
John Stuart Mill	p. 96
Søren Kierkegaard	p. 100
Karl Marx	p. 104
Charles Sanders Peirce	p. 108
William James	p. 112
Friedrich Nietzsche	p. 116
Edmund Husserl	p. 120
John Dewey	p. 124
20th Century
Bertrand Russell	p. 128
Ludwig Wittgenstein	p. 132
Martin Heidegger	p. 136
Sir Karl Popper	p. 140
Jean-Paul Sartre	p. 144
AJ Ayer	p. 148
Michel Foucault	p. 152
Index	p. 156
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