The 100 Most Influential Philosophers of All Time

Britannica Educational Publishing, Amy McKenna

• Publisher: Britannica Educational Publishing
• eBook ISBN:
  9781615300570
• Year: 2009

I think, therefore I am … influential. Leading philosophers conduct a rational investigation of truth to arrive at a set of principles that others believe and adopt. This compendium of the world's greatest thinkers includes the likes of Confucius, Aristotle, Immanuel Kant, Hannah Arendt, and René Descartes.

INDEX

A

Abelard, Peter, 100–103

Abendroth, Wolfgang, 317

Abriss der Logistik, 280

Académie Française, 176

Academy (of Plato), 37, 39, 47–48, 60–61

Academy of Dijon, 183, 184

Academy of Sciences, 167, 197

Adeimantus, 38

Adorno, Theodor Wiesengrund, 286–287, 317, 318

Advaita Vedanta, 83

Adventures of Ideas, 249

Adversus, mathematicos, 73

Aenesidemus, 73

Aesop’s Fables, 211

aesthetic purposiveness, 193

aesthetic theory, 287

Agassiz, Louis, 227

Agathon, 12

Age of Reason, The, 290

Alaric, 77

Alexander IV, 120

Alexander the Great, 47–48, 57

Al-Fārābī, 86–89

al-Ghazālī, 98–100, 105

al-Juwaynī, 98

Al-Kindī, 85–86, 87, 88

“All is one” principle, 26

All Said and Done, 296

Almagest, 79

Almohads, 109

al-Qārābī, 105

America Day by Day, 296

Amida, 115–117

Anabasis, 211

Analects, 21–23, 107

Analysis of Matter, The, 259

Analysis of Mind, The, 259

analytic philosophy, 283

Anarchy, State, and Utopia, 332, 333, 336

Anaxarchus of Abdera, 57

Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for Our Treatment of Animals, 342, 343–344

Anselm of Canterbury, Saint, 11, 96–98, 149

Anselm of Laon, 101

Antiphon, 38

Antoninus Pius (Titus Aurelius Antoninus), 66

Apollonius of Perga, 79

Apology, 29, 32, 33–35, 38–39

Aquinas, Saint Thomas, 9, 96, 117–122

Arab Students’ Organization, 268

Archaeology of Knowledge, The, 310

Arendt, Hannah, 292–294

Arianism, 79, 82

Ariston, 38

Aristotle, 9, 27, 28, 37, 47–54, 71, 81–82, 85, 86, 89–91, 96, 105, 113, 119–121, 124, 135, 141, 144, 151–152, 159, 275, 321, 338

Arithmetica, 79

Arnauld, Antoine, 146

ar-Rāzī, 87, 88

Arrian, 65

atheism, 206, 219

atomic theory of the universe, 35

Augustine, Saint, ...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Introduction
• Pythagoras
• Niccolò Machiavelli
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Ludwig Wittgenstein
• Glossary
• Further Reading
• Index