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The Great philosophers : the lives and ideas of history's greatest thinkers / Stephen Law

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London, United Kingdom : Quercus, c2013Description: ix, 374 pages ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9781780877471
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • B 29 .L39 2013
Contents:
Contents: The Buddha (c.560-c.480 BC) -- Confucius (551-479 BC) -- Parmenides (c.510-c.450 BC) -- Zeno (c.490-c.425 BC) -- Socrates (469-399 BC) -- Plato (c.428-c.348 BC) -- Aristotle (384-322 BC) -- Augustine (AD 354-430) -- Anselm (1033-1109) -- Averroes (1126-98) -- Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) -- William of Ockham (c.1288-c.1358) -- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) -- Rene Descartes (1596-1650) -- Blaise Pascal (1623-62) -- John Locke (1632-1704) -- Benedictus de Spinoza (1632-77) -- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) -- George Berkeley (1685-1753) -- David Hume (1711-76) -- Jean -Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) -- Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) -- Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) -- Georg Hegel (1770-1831) -- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) -- John Stuart Mill (1806-73) -- Soren Kierkegaard (1813-55) -- Karl Marx (1818-83) -- Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) -- William James (1842-1910) -- Friedrich Nietzche (1844-1900) -- Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) -- Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) -- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) -- George Edward Moore (1873-1958) -- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) -- Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) -- Gilbert Ryle ((1900-75) -- Karl Popper (1902-94) -- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-80) -- Hannah Arendt (1906-75) -- Simone de Beauvoir (1908-86) -- Willard Van Orman Quine (1908-2000) -- A.J. Ayer (1910-89) -- Judith Jarvis Thomson (1929-) -- Saul Kripke (1940-) -- Peter Singer (1946-).
Summary: Since the beginning of time mankind has struggled with the big questions surrounding our existence. Whilst most people have heard of Socrates, Machiavelli and Nietzsche, many are less clear on their theories and key concepts. In The Great Philosophers, bestselling author Stephen Law condenses and deciphers their fundamental ideas. Avoiding the technical jargon and complex logic associated with most books on philosophy, Law brings the thoughts of these great thinkers, from Confucius and Buddha to Wittgenstein and Sartre, to life.
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Includes index.

Contents: The Buddha (c.560-c.480 BC) -- Confucius (551-479 BC) -- Parmenides (c.510-c.450 BC) -- Zeno (c.490-c.425 BC) -- Socrates (469-399 BC) -- Plato (c.428-c.348 BC) -- Aristotle (384-322 BC) -- Augustine (AD 354-430) -- Anselm (1033-1109) -- Averroes (1126-98) -- Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) -- William of Ockham (c.1288-c.1358) -- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) -- Rene Descartes (1596-1650) -- Blaise Pascal (1623-62) -- John Locke (1632-1704) -- Benedictus de Spinoza (1632-77) -- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) -- George Berkeley (1685-1753) -- David Hume (1711-76) -- Jean -Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) -- Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) -- Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) -- Georg Hegel (1770-1831) -- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) -- John Stuart Mill (1806-73) -- Soren Kierkegaard (1813-55) -- Karl Marx (1818-83) -- Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) -- William James (1842-1910) -- Friedrich Nietzche (1844-1900) -- Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) -- Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) -- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) -- George Edward Moore (1873-1958) -- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) -- Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) -- Gilbert Ryle ((1900-75) -- Karl Popper (1902-94) -- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-80) -- Hannah Arendt (1906-75) -- Simone de Beauvoir (1908-86) -- Willard Van Orman Quine (1908-2000) -- A.J. Ayer (1910-89) -- Judith Jarvis Thomson (1929-) -- Saul Kripke (1940-) -- Peter Singer (1946-).

Since the beginning of time mankind has struggled with the big questions surrounding our existence. Whilst most people have heard of Socrates, Machiavelli and Nietzsche, many are less clear on their theories and key concepts. In The Great Philosophers, bestselling author Stephen Law condenses and deciphers their fundamental ideas. Avoiding the technical jargon and complex logic associated with most books on philosophy, Law brings the thoughts of these great thinkers, from Confucius and Buddha to Wittgenstein and Sartre, to life.

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