The 100 Most Influential Philosophers of All Time
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The 100 Most Influential Philosophers of All Time

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The 100 Most Influential Philosophers of All Time

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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.

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Information

Publisher
Britannica Educational Publishing
Year
2009
eBook ISBN
9781615300570

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

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. Pythagoras
  7. Niccolò Machiavelli
  8. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  9. Ludwig Wittgenstein
  10. Glossary
  11. Further Reading
  12. Index