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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459393703321

Autore

Pirie Madsen <1940->

Titolo

101 great philosophers / / Madsen Pirie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Continuum, , 2009

©2009

ISBN

1-282-87547-7

9786612875472

1-4411-6563-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (215 p.)

Collana

Makers of Modern Thought

Disciplina

190

Soggetti

Philosophy - History

Philosophers

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 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 ind