The 100 most influential philosophers
By: edited by Brian Duignan
Contributors: Britannica Educational Publishing
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: The Britannica guide to the world's most influential people; Britannica guide to the world's most influential people
Publisher: Britannica Educational Pub. in association with Fall River Press; Fall River Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781435123885
Subjects: Philosophers; Philosoph; Philosophy; Philosophie
Other titles: One hundred most influential philosophers; Hundred most influential philosophers
Description: Collects brief discussions of the lives and philosophical viewpoints of one hundred thinkers throughout history, arranged chronologically by date of birth, including figures from the fields of ontology, epistemology, and ethics.
Table of contents: title: Pythagoras; title: Confucius; title: Heracleitus; title: Parmenides; title: Zeno of Elea; title: Socrates; title: Democritus; title: Plato; title: Aristotle; title: Mencius; title: Zhuangzi; title: Pyrrhon of Elis; title: Epicurus; title: Zeno of Citium; title: Philo Judaeus; title: Marcus Aurelius; title: Nagarjuna; title: Plotinus; title: Sextus Empiricus; title: Saint Augustine; title: Hypatia; title: Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius; title: Sankara; title: Yaqub ibn Ishaq asĐ-SĐabahĐ al-Kindi; title: Al-Farabi; title: Avicenna; title: Ramanuja; title: Ibn Gabirol; title: Saint Anselm of Canterbury; title: al-Ghazali; title: Peter Abelard; title: Averroes; title: Zhu Xi; title: Moses Maimonides; title: Ibn al-'Arabi; title: Shinran; title: Saint Thomas Aquinas; title: John Duns Scotus; title: William of Ockham; title: Niccolo Machiavelli; title: Wang Yangming; title: Francis Bacon, Viscount Saint Alban (or Albans), Baron of Verulam; title: Thomas Hobbes; title: Rene Descartes; title: John Locke; title: Benedict de Spinoza; title: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz; title: Giambattista Vico; title: George Berkeley; title: Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brede et de Montesquieu; title: David Hume; title: Jean-Jacques Rousseau; title: Immanuel Kant; title: Moses Mendelssohn; title: Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet; title: Jeremy Bentham; title: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel; title: Arthur Schopenhauer; title: Auguste Comte; title: John Stuart Mill; title: S©ıren Kierkegaard; title: Karl Marx; title: Herbert Spencer; title: Wilhelm Dilthey; title: William James; title: Friedrich Nietzsche; title: Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege; title: Edmund Husserl; title: Henri Bergson; title: John Dewey; title: Alfred North Whitehead; title: Benedetto Croce; title: Nishida Kitaro; title: Bertrand Russell; title: G.E. Moore; title: Martin Buber; title: Ludwig Wittgenstein; title: Martin Heidegger; title: Rudolf Carnap; title: Sir Karl Popper; title: Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno; title: Jean-Paul Sartre; title: Hannah Arendt; title: Simone de Beauvoir; title: Willard Van Orman Quine; title: Sir A.J. Ayer; title: Wilfrid Sellars; title: John Rawls; title: Thomas S. Kuhn; title: Michel Foucault; title: Noam Chomsky; title: Jurgeb Gabernas; title: Sir Bernard Williams; title: Jacques Derrida; title: Richard Rorty; title: Robert Nozick; title: Saul Kripke; title: David Kellogg Lewis; title: Peter (Albert David) Singer.