101 Great Philosophers
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101 Great Philosophers

Makers of Modern Thought

  1. 216 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

101 Great Philosophers

Makers of Modern Thought

About this book

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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Information

Publisher
Continuum
Year
2009
Print ISBN
9780826423863
eBook ISBN
9781441165633

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Thales
  4. Anaximander
  5. Pythagoras
  6. Xenophanes
  7. Heraclitus
  8. Parmenides
  9. Anaxagoras
  10. Empedocles
  11. Protagoras
  12. Zeno
  13. Diogenes
  14. Socrates
  15. Democritus
  16. Antisthenes
  17. Plato
  18. Aristotle
  19. Epicurus
  20. Aristarchus
  21. Archimedes
  22. Seneca
  23. Epictetus
  24. Ptolemy
  25. Marcus Aurelius
  26. Sextus Empiricus
  27. Plotinus
  28. Saint Augustine of Hippo
  29. St Anselm
  30. Roger Bacon
  31. Thomas Aquinas
  32. William of Occam (Ockham)
  33. Francesco Petrarch
  34. Desiderius Erasmus
  35. Niccolo Machiavelli
  36. Galileo Galilei
  37. Thomas Hobbes
  38. René Descartes
  39. Blaise Pascal
  40. John Locke
  41. Benedict de Spinoza
  42. Isaac Newton
  43. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  44. Giambattista Vico
  45. Bernard Mandeville
  46. Bishop (George) Berkeley
  47. Charles, Baron de Montesquieu
  48. Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
  49. Benjamin Franklin
  50. David Hume
  51. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  52. Denis Diderot
  53. Adam Ferguson
  54. Adam Smith
  55. Immanuel Kant
  56. Edmund Burke
  57. Thomas Jefferson
  58. Johann Herder
  59. Jeremy Bentham
  60. Wilhelm Hegel
  61. Arthur Schopenhauer
  62. Mary Shelley
  63. Auguste Comte
  64. Frédéric Bastiat
  65. Ludwig Feuerbach
  66. John Stuart Mill
  67. Harriet Taylor Mill
  68. Charles Darwin
  69. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
  70. SĂžren Kierkegaard
  71. Mikhail Bakunin
  72. Karl Marx
  73. Herbert Spencer
  74. Charles Peirce
  75. William James
  76. Friedrich Nietzsche
  77. John Dewey
  78. Edmund Husserl
  79. Max Weber
  80. Bertrand Russell
  81. G. E. Moore
  82. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
  83. Erwin Schrödinger
  84. Martin Heidegger
  85. Ludwig Wittgenstein
  86. Herbert Marcuse
  87. Friedrich Hayek
  88. Gilbert Ryle
  89. Michael Oakeshott
  90. Karl Popper
  91. Arthur Koestler
  92. Ayn Rand
  93. Jean-Paul Sartre
  94. Hannah Arendt
  95. H. L. A. Hart
  96. Isaiah Berlin
  97. A. J. Ayer
  98. John Rawls
  99. Thomas Kuhn
  100. Michel Foucault
  101. Noam Chomsky
  102. Jacques Derrida
  103. Robert Nozick
  104. A–Z of Entries