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What better introduction to the world of philosophy than through the lives of its most prominent citizens. In The Philosophers, we are introduced to twenty-eight of the greatest thinkers in Western civilization, ranging from Aristotle and Plato to Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and Sartre.
An illustrious team of scholars takes us on a concise and illuminating tour of some of the most brilliant minds and enduring ideas in history. Here is Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics, Plato's cave of shadows, Schopenhauer's vision of reality as blind, striving Will, Hegel's idea of the World
Spirit, Bentham's principle of the Greatest Happiness, Mill's contributions to our understanding of liberty, William James's theory of the stream of consciousness, Husserl's phenomenology, and much more. Readers will find thoughtful discussions of everything from Kant's categorical imperative, to
the Christian philosophies of Augustine, Aquinas, and Kierkegaard, to the materialism of Hobbes or Marx, to the modern--and quite different--philosophical systems of Bertrand Russell, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Each article is illustrated with a portrait of the philosopher, the
contributors provide lists for further reading, and the volume includes a chronological table that gives valuable historical context.
Here then is an authoritative and engaging guide to the ideas of the most notable philosophers, ranging from antiquity to the present day. The Philosophers shows how these great thinkers wrestled with the central problems of the human condition--with important questions of free will, morality,
and the limits of logic and reason--as it illuminatestheir legacy for our time.
What better introduction to the world of philosophy than through the lives of its most prominent citizens. In The Philosophers, we are introduced to twenty-eight of the greatest thinkers in Western civilization, ranging from Aristotle and Plato to Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and Sartre.
An illustrious team of scholars takes us on a concise and illuminating tour of some of the most brilliant minds and enduring ideas in history. Here is Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics, Plato's cave of shadows, Schopenhauer's vision of reality as blind, striving Will, Hegel's idea of the World
Spirit, Bentham's principle of the Greatest Happiness, Mill's contributions to our understanding of liberty, William James's theory of the stream of consciousness, Husserl's phenomenology, and much more. Readers will find thoughtful discussions of everything from Kant's categorical imperative, to
the Christian philosophies of Augustine, Aquinas, and Kierkegaard, to the materialism of Hobbes or Marx, to the modern--and quite different--philosophical systems of Bertrand Russell, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Each article is illustrated with a portrait of the philosopher, the
contributors provide lists for further reading, and the volume includes a chronological table that gives valuable historical context.
Here then is an authoritative and engaging guide to the ideas of the most notable philosophers, ranging from antiquity to the present day. The Philosophers shows how these great thinkers wrestled with the central problems of the human condition--with important questions of free will, morality,
and the limits of logic and reason--as it illuminatestheir legacy for our time.
Ted Honderich: Introduction
1: C. C. W. Taylor: Socrates
2: David Bostock: Plato
3: David Charles: Aristotle
4: C. A. Kirwan: Augustine
5: Alexander Broadie: Aquinas
6: Bernard Gert: Hobbes
7: John Cottingham: Descartes
8: T. L. S. Sprigge: Spinoza
9: Roger Woolhouse: Locke
10: R. C. Sleigh: Leibniz
11: Geoffrey Warnock: Berkeley
12: Justin Broackes: Hume
13: Henry E. Allison: Kant
14: T. L. S. Sprigge: Schopenhauer
15: Peter Singer: Hegel
16: Ross Harrison: Bentham
17: Alastair Hannay: Kierkegaard
18: Allen Wood: Marx
19: John Skorupski: Mill
20: Richard Schacht: Nietzsche
21: Christopher Hookway: Peirce
22: T. L. S. Sprigge: James
23: Anthony Kenny: Frege
24: Michael Inwood: Husserl
25: Mark Sainsbury: Russell
26: Peter Hacker: Wittgenstein
27: Michael Inwood: Heidegger
28: Thomas Baldwin: Sartre
Guide to Further Reading
A. R. Lacey: Chronological Table
Index
Ted Honderich retired in 1998 from the Grote Professorship of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic at University College London. He is the editor of The Oxford Companion to Philosophy (1995), from which the pieces in this book are taken.
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