100 Most Influential Philosophers of All Time
1st Edition
Published on 10. January 2009
368 pages
978-1-61530-057-0 (ISBN)
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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 Rene Descartes.
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The 100 Most Influential Philosophers of All Time
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Content
- COVER
- TITLE
- COPYRIGHT
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- PYTHAGORAS
- CONFUCIUS
- THE ANALECTS
- HERACLEITUS
- PARMENIDES
- ZENO OF ELEA
- SOCRATES
- LIFE AND PERSONALITY
- SOCRATES IN THE DIALOGUES OF PLATO
- PLATO'S APOLOGY
- DEMOCRITUS
- PLATO
- HAPPINESS AND VIRTUE
- THE REPUBLIC
- THE THEORY OF FORMS
- FORMS AS PERFECT EXEMPLARS
- FORMS AS GENERA AND SPECIES
- ARISTOTLE
- DOCTRINES
- PHYSICS AND METAPHYSICS
- FORMS
- CAUSATION
- ETHICS
- ACTION AND CONTEMPLATION
- MENCIUS
- DOCTRINE OF HUMAN NATURE
- ZHUANGZI
- PHILOSOPHY
- PYRRHON OF ELIS
- EPICURUS
- THE SCHOOLS AT ATHENS AND ELSEWHERE
- ZENO OF CITIUM
- ZENO'S PHILOSOPHY
- PHILO JUDAEUS
- EPICTETUS
- MARCUS AURELIUS
- MARCUS AS ROMAN EMPEROR
- THE MEDITATIONS
- NAGARJUNA
- PHILOSOPHY
- PLOTINUS
- SEXTUS EMPIRICUS
- SAINT AUGUSTINE
- LIFE
- CONFESSIONS
- CITY OF GOD
- HYPATIA
- ANICIUS MANLIUS SEVERINUS BOETHIUS
- SANKARA
- YAQUB IBN ISHAQ AS-SABAHAL-KINDI
- AL-FARABI
- POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY AND THE STUDY OF RELIGION
- THE ANALOGY OF RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY
- AVICENNA
- THE DOCTRINE OF CREATION
- THE IMMORTALITY OF INDIVIDUAL SOULS
- RAMANUJA
- PHILOSOPHY AND INFLUENCE
- IBN GABIROL
- PHILOSOPHY
- SAINT ANSELM OF CANTERBURY
- AL-GHAZALI
- PETER ABELARD
- CAREER AS A MONK
- FINAL YEARS
- AVERROËS
- AVERROËS' DEFENSE OF PHILOSOPHY
- ZHU XI
- MOSES MAIMONIDES
- LIFE
- WORKS
- IBN AL-ARABI
- SHINRAN
- SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS
- EARLY YEARS
- STUDIES IN PARIS
- LATER YEARS
- JOHN DUNS SCOTUS
- YEARS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PARIS
- FINAL PERIOD AT COLOGNE
- WILLIAM OF OCKHAM
- EARLY LIFE
- TREATISE TO JOHN XXII
- NICCOLÒ MACHIAVELLI
- THE PRINCE
- WANG YANGMING
- FRANCIS BACON, VISCOUNT SAINT ALBAN (OR ALBANS), BARON OF VERULAM
- THE IDOLS OF THE MIND
- THE NEW METHOD
- THOMAS HOBBES
- INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT
- POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
- RETURN TO ENGLAND
- RENÉ DESCARTES
- EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION
- RESIDENCE IN THE NETHERLANDS
- MEDITATIONS
- FINAL YEARS
- JOHN LOCKE
- OXFORD
- EXILE IN FRANCE
- TWO TREATISES OF GOVERNMENT
- ORGANIZATION OF GOVERNMENT
- AN ESSAY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING
- KNOWLEDGE
- LAST YEARS
- BENEDICT DE SPINOZA
- RIJNSBURG AND THE HAGUE
- TRACTATUS THEOLOGICO-POLITICUS
- THE PERIOD OF THE ETHICS
- GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ
- GIAMBATTISTA VICO
- VICO'S VISION
- GEORGE BERKELEY
- PERIOD OF HIS MAJOR WORKS
- YEARS AS BISHOP OF CLOYNE
- CHARLES-LOUIS DE SECONDAT, BARON DE LA BRÈDE ET DE MONTESQUIEU
- MAJOR WORKS
- DAVID HUME
- MATURE WORKS
- JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
- MAJOR WORKS OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
- YEARS OF SECLUSION AND EXILE
- IMMANUEL KANT
- THE CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON
- THE CRITIQUE OF PRACTICAL REASON
- THE CRITIQUE OF JUDGMENT
- LAST YEARS
- MOSES MENDELSSOHN
- MARIE-JEAN-ANTOINE-NICOLAS DE CARITAT, MARQUIS DE CONDORCET
- JEREMY BENTHAM
- GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL
- EMANCIPATION FROM KANTIANISM
- CAREER AS LECTURER AT JENA
- UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR
- INFLUENCE
- ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
- AUGUSTE COMTE
- JOHN STUART MILL
- SØREN KIERKEGAARD
- A LIFE OF CONFLICTS
- STAGES ON LIFE'S WAY
- LATER YEARS
- KARL MARX
- BRUSSELS PERIOD
- EARLY YEARS IN LONDON
- ROLE IN THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL
- LAST YEARS
- HERBERT SPENCER
- THE SYNTHETIC PHILOSOPHY IN OUTLINE
- WILHELM DILTHEY
- WILLIAM JAMES
- FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
- THE EARLY YEARS
- THE BASEL YEARS
- NIETZSCHE'S MATURE PHILOSOPHY
- ISOLATION, COLLAPSE, AND MISUSE
- FRIEDRICH LUDWIG GOTTLOB FREGE
- SYSTEM OF MATHEMATICAL LOGIC
- CONTRADICTIONS IN FREGE'S SYSTEM
- EDMUND HUSSERL
- LECTURER AT HALLE
- PHENOMENOLOGY AS THE UNIVERSAL SCIENCE
- THE RENEWAL OF SPIRITUAL LIFE
- LATER YEARS
- HENRI BERGSON
- PHILOSOPHICAL TRIUMPHS
- LATER YEARS
- JOHN DEWEY
- PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHT
- CAREER AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
- ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
- CAREER IN LONDON
- CAREER IN THE UNITED STATES
- BENEDETTO CROCE
- FOUNDING OF LA CRITICA
- STRUGGLE WITH FASCISM
- NISHIDA KITARO
- BERTRAND RUSSELL
- ANALYSIS AND LOGICISM
- RUSSELL'S PARADOX
- THEORY OF DESCRIPTIONS AND LATER DOCTRINES
- A TURBULENT LIFE
- RETURN TO ACADEMIA
- G.E. MOORE
- MARTIN BUBER
- FROM VIENNA TO JERUSALEM
- FROM MYSTICISM TO DIALOGUE
- FINAL YEARS
- LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
- THE TRACTATUS LOGICO-PHILOSOPHICUS
- A NEW UNDERSTANDING OF PHILOSOPHY
- LAST YEARS
- MARTIN HEIDEGGER
- BACKGROUND AND YOUTH
- PHILOSOPHY
- HEIDEGGER AND NAZISM
- RUDOLF CARNAP
- LOGICAL EMPIRICISM
- WORKS ON EMPIRICISM
- CAREER IN THE UNITED STATES
- SIR KARL POPPER
- THEODOR WIESENGRUND ADORNO
- JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
- EARLY LIFE AND WRITINGS
- POST-WORLD WAR II WORK
- POLITICAL ACTIVITIES
- LAST YEARS
- HANNAH ARENDT
- SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
- WILLARD VAN ORMAN QUINE
- SIR A.J. AYER
- LANGUAGE, TRUTH, AND LOGIC
- THE PROBLEM OF KNOWLEDGE
- LATER YEARS
- WILFRID SELLARS
- JOHN RAWLS
- THOMAS S. KUHN
- MICHEL FOUCAULT
- FOUCAULT'S IDEAS
- NOAM CHOMSKY
- JÜRGEN HABERMAS
- PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIAL THEORY
- SIR BERNARD WILLIAMS
- PHILOSOPHY AS A HUMANISTIC DISCIPLINE
- THE ABSOLUTE CONCEPTION OF REALITY
- MORALITY AND THE LIMITS OF OBJECTIVITY
- JACQUES DERRIDA
- RICHARD RORTY
- RICHARD NOZICK
- CONVERSION TO LIBERTARIANISM
- THE MINIMAL STATE
- SAUL KRIPKE
- NAMING AND NECESSITY
- DAVID KELLOGG LEWIS
- PETER (ALBERT DAVID) SINGER
- GLOSSARY
- FOR FURTHER READING
- INDEX
- BACK COVER
