Philosophy: A Beginner's Guide
09/2012 · Hachette UK
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From philosophy's founding fathers - Thales, Socrates, Plato... to great minds of the post-modern era - Satre, Ayer, Feyerabend... this concise new guide presents 100 of the world's most influential thinkers. Arranged from the ancient world to the present day, each philosopher's key ideas, notable works and pronouncements are encapsulated in a series of succinct biographies, accompanied by illustrations, at-a-glance fact panels and thought-provoking quotations.
Philosophy: A Beginner's Guide uncovers the fundamental concepts of this fascinating discipline, explaining the diverging schools of thought and revealing the universal aim of philosophy throughout the ages - to push back the boundaries of human knowledge in order to understand the fundamental nature of human existence.
THE ANCIENT WORLD:
Thales (c.635-c.543 BCE);
Buddha (c.563-483 BCE);
Confucius (c.55-479 BCE);
Socrates (470-399 BCE);
Plato (427-347 BCE);
Aristotle (384-322 BCE).
THE MIDDLE AGES:
Avicenna (Ibn Sina) (980-1037);
Peter Lombard (c1100-1160);
Averroes (Ibn Rushd) 1126-1198);
Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274);
William of Ockham (1285- 1349).
THE EARLY MODERN ERA:
Machiavelli (1469-1527);
Hobbes (1588-1679);
Descartes (1596-1650);
Locke (1632-1704);
Voltaire (1694-1778).
THE MODERN ERA:
Fichte (1762-1814);
G W F Hegel (1770-1831);
Schopenhauer (1788-1860);
Marx (1818-1883);
Engels (1820-1895);
Nietzsche (1844-1900);
Dewy (1859-1952);
Max Weber (1864-1920);
Gasset (1883-1955);
Heidegger (1889-1976).
THE POST-MODERN ERA:
Marcuse (1898-1979);
Karl Popper (1902-1994);
Sartre (1905-1980);
Arendt (1906-1975);
de Beauvoir (1908-1986);
A J Ayer (1910-1989);
Feyerabend (1924-1994);
Rorty (1931-2007).
And many more...
Philosophy: A Beginner's Guide uncovers the fundamental concepts of this fascinating discipline, explaining the diverging schools of thought and revealing the universal aim of philosophy throughout the ages - to push back the boundaries of human knowledge in order to understand the fundamental nature of human existence.
THE ANCIENT WORLD:
Thales (c.635-c.543 BCE);
Buddha (c.563-483 BCE);
Confucius (c.55-479 BCE);
Socrates (470-399 BCE);
Plato (427-347 BCE);
Aristotle (384-322 BCE).
THE MIDDLE AGES:
Avicenna (Ibn Sina) (980-1037);
Peter Lombard (c1100-1160);
Averroes (Ibn Rushd) 1126-1198);
Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274);
William of Ockham (1285- 1349).
THE EARLY MODERN ERA:
Machiavelli (1469-1527);
Hobbes (1588-1679);
Descartes (1596-1650);
Locke (1632-1704);
Voltaire (1694-1778).
THE MODERN ERA:
Fichte (1762-1814);
G W F Hegel (1770-1831);
Schopenhauer (1788-1860);
Marx (1818-1883);
Engels (1820-1895);
Nietzsche (1844-1900);
Dewy (1859-1952);
Max Weber (1864-1920);
Gasset (1883-1955);
Heidegger (1889-1976).
THE POST-MODERN ERA:
Marcuse (1898-1979);
Karl Popper (1902-1994);
Sartre (1905-1980);
Arendt (1906-1975);
de Beauvoir (1908-1986);
A J Ayer (1910-1989);
Feyerabend (1924-1994);
Rorty (1931-2007).
And many more...
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Jeremy Harwood has written widely on many historical topics, ranging from key developments in human thought to history's unresolved mysteries. Among his recent books are five volumes surveying the political and social history of Britain from mid-Victorian times to the end of the 20th century and a study of the philosophic origins of Freemasonry.
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