Here, presented for non-specialist readers, is an
easy-to-understand survey of ideas put forth by 100 important
philosophers, from the pre-Socratics of ancient Greece to the
analytic philosophers of the present day. Each thinker is
summarized in a single illustrated page, or in many instances, in a
two-page spread. Each entry includes the philosopher's birth and
death dates, titles of major works, major influences, a capsule
biographical sketch, and a brief summary of his or her most
important ideas. In addition to philosophers in our own Western
tradition, readers will find Chinese sages, including Confucius and
Lao-tzu, the Indian Buddhist philosopher Nagarjuna, and thinkers
representing other cultures.
Just a few of the 100 important thinkers represented in this
book are:
Plato
Aristotle
Augustine of Hippo
Roger Bacon
Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Rene Descartes
Baruch Spinoza
Immanuel Kant
G.W.F. Hegel
Friedrich Nietzsche
William James
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Martin Heidegger
Jean-Paul Sartre
Alfred Jules Ayer
Willard V.O. Quine
Thomas Kuhn
Donald Davidson
and many others
The text is enhanced with more than 250 illustrations and a
glossary of philosophical terms.
PUBLICATION DATE: Sep 2004
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One Hundred Philosophers |
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