Philosophy: A Beginner's Guide to the Ideas of 100 Great Thinkers - Brossura

Harwood, Jeremy

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ISBN 10: 1849164835 ISBN 13: 9781849164832

Casa editrice: Quercus, 2010

Riassunto

Succinct biographies of the 100 most important philosophers, their key ideas, and most notable works

From philosophy's founding fathers, such as Thales, Socrates, and Plato, to great minds of the postmodern era, such as Sartre, Ayer, and Feyerabend, this essential guide distills the thoughts of the world's most influential minds and explains their answers to some of philosophy's key questions. Is there a Supreme Being? Who am I? What is truth? Do we have free will? Why do bad things happen? How should we live? Is death the end of everything? What is the meaning of life? Arranged from the ancient world to the present day, each philosopher's notable works and pronouncements are encapsulated in a series of succinct, easy-to-read biographies, accompanied by illustrations, at-a-glance fact panels, and quotations, making this the ideal beginner's guide to a fascinating but often daunting subject.

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L'autore:

Jeremy Harwood has written widely on many historical topics. His titles include The Secret History of Freemasonry.

Contenuti:

Introduction: What is Philosophy? THE ANCIENT WORLD. Thales of Melitus. Anaximander. Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha. Confucius. Heraclitus. Parmenides. Lao-tzu. Zeno of Elea. Socrates. Democritus. Plato. Aristotle. Epicurus. Marcus Aurelius. Sextus Empiricus. Tertullian. Origen. Plotinus. St Augustine. THE MIDDLE AGES. Avicenna. St Anselm of Canterbury. Peter Abelard. Averroes. Moses Maimonides. St Thomas Aquinas. John Duns Scotus. William of Ockham. THE EARLY MODERN ERA. Niccolo Machiavelli. Michel de Montaigne. Sir Francis Bacon. Thomas Hobbes. Rene Descartes. Blaise Pascal. Baruch Spinoza. John Locke. Gottfried Leibniz. George Berkeley. Voltaire. David Hume. Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Adam Smith. Immanuel Kant. Edmund Burke. Thomas Paine. Jeremy Bentham. Mary Wollstonecraft. THE MODERN ERA. Johann Gottlieb Fichte. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. James Mill. Arthur Schopenhauer. Alexis de Tocqueville. John Stuart Mill. Soren Kierkegaard. Karl Marx. Friedrich Engels. Henry Sidgwick. Charles Sanders Pierce. William James. Friedrich Nietzsche. Gottlob Frege. Emile Durkheim. Edmund Husserl. John Dewey. Henri Louis Bergson. Alfred North Whitehead. George Santayana. Max Weber. J.M.E. McTaggart. Bertrand Russell. G.E. Moore. Ludwig Wittgenstein. Martin Heidegger. Rudolf Carnap. THE POST-MODERN ERA. Max Horkheimer. Herbert Marcuse. Gilbert Ryle. Hans-Georg Gadamer. Jacques Lacan. Karl Popper. Jean-Paul Sartre. Ayn Rand. Hannah Arendt. Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Simone de Beauvoir. Willard Van Orman Quine. Claude Levi-Strauss. Simone Weil. A.J. Ayer. Alan Turing. Donald Davidson. Peter Strawson. John Rawls. Thomas Kuhn. Paul Feyerabend. Michel Foucault. Noam Chomsky. Bernard Williams. Jacques Derrida. Robert Nozick. Saul Kripke. Glossary. Index. Acknowledgements.

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• Editore: Quercus
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1849164835
• ISBN 13: 9781849164832
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 192