101 Great Philosophers is a concise and accessible guide to 101 of the greatest minds that contributed to the legacy of western philosophy. From the ancient Greeks to present-day thinkers, Madsen Pirie employs concise entries, each on a single page, to give a snapshot of the contribution made by 100 key philosophers to the development of this fascinating subject. This book provides a sparkling insight into the lives and times of each philosopher covered - explaining just why what they had to say was so innovative and inspiring.
Essential reading for anyone coming to the subject for the first time, this book is an indispensible introduction to the most important ideas in the history of western thought.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Preface
- Thales
- Anaximander
- Pythagoras
- Xenophanes
- Heraclitus
- Parmenides
- Anaxagoras
- Empedocles
- Protagoras
- Zeno
- Diogenes
- Socrates
- Democritus
- Antisthenes
- Plato
- Aristotle
- Epicurus
- Aristarchus
- Archimedes
- Seneca
- Epictetus
- Ptolemy
- Marcus Aurelius
- Sextus Empiricus
- Plotinus
- Saint Augustine of Hippo
- St Anselm
- Roger Bacon
- Thomas Aquinas
- William of Occam (Ockham)
- Francesco Petrarch
- Desiderius Erasmus
- Niccolo Machiavelli
- Galileo Galilei
- Thomas Hobbes
- René Descartes
- Blaise Pascal
- John Locke
- Benedict de Spinoza
- Isaac Newton
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Giambattista Vico
- Bernard Mandeville
- Bishop (George) Berkeley
- Charles, Baron de Montesquieu
- Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
- Benjamin Franklin
- David Hume
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Denis Diderot
- Adam Ferguson
- Adam Smith
- Immanuel Kant
- Edmund Burke
- Thomas Jefferson
- Johann Herder
- Jeremy Bentham
- Wilhelm Hegel
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Mary Shelley
- Auguste Comte
- Frédéric Bastiat
- Ludwig Feuerbach
- John Stuart Mill
- Harriet Taylor Mill
- Charles Darwin
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
- Søren Kierkegaard
- Mikhail Bakunin
- Karl Marx
- Herbert Spencer
- Charles Peirce
- William James
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- John Dewey
- Edmund Husserl
- Max Weber
- Bertrand Russell
- G. E. Moore
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- Erwin Schrödinger
- Martin Heidegger
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Herbert Marcuse
- Friedrich Hayek
- Gilbert Ryle
- Michael Oakeshott
- Karl Popper
- Arthur Koestler
- Ayn Rand
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Hannah Arendt
- H. L. A. Hart
- Isaiah Berlin
- A. J. Ayer
- John Rawls
- Thomas Kuhn
- Michel Foucault
- Noam Chomsky
- Jacques Derrida
- Robert Nozick
- A–Z of Entries
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