Philosophy has been under way for more than two thousand years. The Great Philosophers traces the biggest and most influential thoughts in philosophy's long stride through history, beginning with the Ancient Greeks and Early Romans, the first philosophical thinkers in the West, to whom much is owed. How their concerns became the concerns of t...
The author interviews modern philosophers and writers such as Martha Nussbaum and Peter Singer on the major figures in the history of Western philosophy, from Plato and Aristotle to Russell and Wittgenstein.
False analogy , 22 False cause fallacy , 19 Feelings , 5 Feuerbach , 90 , 148 Figure of speech fallacy , 14 Finite series , 111 First cause , 92-3 Flewelling , Ralph Tyler , 163 Freedom , Rousseau , 73 Freud , Sigmund , 100 , 101 , 105 ...
Great Philosophers tells the story of Western philosophy through the thought of its main protagonists, the great philosophers.
Covers Socrates; Plato; Descartes; Spinoza; Berkeley; Hume; Marx; Russell; Heidegger; Wittgenstein; Popper; Turing.
Western philosophy remains one of the greatest glories of world civilization, yet surprisingly few people have any real knowledge of it. Based on fifteen dialogues between Bryan Magee and some...
These figures include: • Aristotle • Jean-Jacques Rousseau • Karl Marx • Simone de Beauvoir • Noam Chomsky • W.V.O Quine By presenting details of their lives and the concerns and circumstances that motivated them, this book ...
Conversations with 15 contemporary writers and philosophers provide an accessible and exciting account of Western philosophy and its greatest thinkers.
... William 32, 33 Cecil, Sir William 28 Chaerephon 9 Charles I, King of Great Britain and Ireland 33 Charles II, ... 62, 63 Conjectures and Refutations 115 Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, A 87 Cooke, Ann 28 Cooper, ...
A collection on the historical introduction to human nature.
This volume also contains a Postscript on the historical origins and original significance of the phrase ‘the meaning of life’.