Philosophy 100 Essential Thinkers

Name: Philosophy 100 Essential Thinkers
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ISBN: 9781592700462

ISBN-10: 1592700462

ISBN-13: 9781592700462

Edition: 2005

Authors: Philip Stokes

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An excellent guide through a complex and fascinating world of ideas that is sure to provoke further investigation. Knowledge and the sudden experience of understanding can be as thrilling as the solution to any puzzle or riddle, since knowledge always resolves a mystery-that of not knowing. Most people are familiar with the names Plato, Machiavelli, Spinoza, and Simone de Beauvoir, but remain unsure of their significance. Philosophy: 100 Essential Thinkers provides succinct descriptions of the essential thought of one hundred major philosophers, including some who are not seen primarily as philosophers, such as Darwin, Freud, and Einstein. Presenting biographical details, quotations, and…

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List price: $12.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Enchanted Lion Books, LLC
Publication date: 8/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



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


Desiderus Erasmus


Thomas More


Francis Bacon


Galileo Galilei


Thomas Hobbes


Sir Isaac Newton


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 Schelling


George 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 Existentialists


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