Philosophy: 100 Essential Thinkers

by Philip Stokes

Overview

Ponder life's biggest questions with this spectacular hardback guide to philosophy through its 100 key thinkers, beautifully illustrated in full-color throughout.

From the metaphysics of Plato to the nihilism of Nietzsche, this engaging and accessible book invites readers to contemplate the ideas of 100 key philosophers within the Western intellectual tradition. Covering philosophical, scientific, political and religious thought over a period of 2500 years, this serves as an excellent guide to this history of philosophy and the progress that has been made in interpreting the world around us.

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, along with a range of full-color illustrations, this book makes philosophy come to life as a relevant and meaningful approach to thinking about the contemporary world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781398843592
Publisher:	Arcturus Publishing Limited
Publication date:	11/26/2024
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	7.20(w) x 8.98(h) x (d)

About the Author

Philip Stokes graduated with a BA(Hons) in Philosophy from the University of Reading in 1993, and gained his Masters degree from Bristol University in 1995. His Masters dissertation was a critique of Quine from a Wittgensteinian perspective. After working for several years in academic publishing, Philip returned to academia proper, beginning his PhD at the University of Reading, where he was Course tutor within the Department of Continuing Education at Reading. In 2005 he took up a post at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, where he is a member of the Language Faculty.

Table of Contents

	The Presocratics
	Thales of Miletus	8
	Pythagoras of Samos	10
	Xenophanes of Colophon	12
	Heraclitus	14
	The Eleatics
	Parmenides of Elea	16
	Zeno of Elea	18
	The Academics
	Socrates	20
	Plato	22
	Aristotle	24
	The Atomists
	Democritus	26
	Epicurus	28
	The Cynics
	Diogenes of Sinope	30
	The Stoics
	Marcus Tullius Cicero	32
	Philo of Alexandria	34
	Lucius Annaeus Seneca	36
	Marcus Aurelius	38
	The Sceptics
	Sextus Empiricus	40
	The Neoplatonists
	Plotinus	42
	The Christians
	St Augustine of Hippo	44
	Boethius	46
	The Scholastics
	St Anselm	48
	St Thomas Aquinas	50
	John Duns Scotus	52
	William of Occam	54
	The Age of Science
	Nicolaus Copernicus	56
	Niccolo Machiavelli	58
	Desiderus Erasmus	60
	Thomas More	62
	Francis Bacon	64
	Galileo Galilei	66
	Thomas Hobbes	68
	Sir Isaac Newton	70
	The Rationalists
	Rene Descartes	72
	Antoine Arnauld	74
	Nicolas Malebranche	76
	Benedict de Spinoza	78
	Gottfried von Leibniz	80
	The Empiricists
	John Locke	82
	David Hume	84
	Thomas Reid	86
	Voltaire	88
	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	90
	Denis Diderot	92
	The Idealists
	George Berkeley	94
	Immanuel Kant	96
	Johann Schiller	98
	Frederick Schelling	100
	George Hegel	102
	Arthur Schopenhauer	104
	The Liberals
	Adam Smith	106
	Mary Wollstonecraft	108
	Thomas Paine	110
	Jeremy Bentham	112
	John Stuart Mill	114
	Auguste Comte	116
	The Evolutionists
	Charles Darwin	118
	Henri Louis Bergson	120
	A.N. Whitehead	122
	The Pragmatists
	Ernst Mach	124
	Charles Peirce	126
	William James	128
	John Dewey	130
	The Materialists
	Karl Marx	132
	Friedrich Engels	134
	Vladimir Lenin	136
	Sigmund Freud	138
	Carl Jung	140
	John Maynard Keynes	142
	The Existentialists
	Soren Kierkegaard	144
	Friedrich Nietzsche	146
	Edmund Husserl	148
	Martin Heidegger	150
	Jean-Paul Sartre	152
	Albert Camus	154
	Simone de Beauvoir	156
	The Linguistic Turn
	Gottlob Frege	158
	Bertrand Russell	160
	Ludwig Wittgenstein	162
	Ferdinand de Saussure	164
	George Edward Moore	166
	Moritz Schlick	168
	Lev Vygotsky	170
	Rudolph Carnap	172
	A.J. Ayer	174
	Alfred Tarski	176
	J.L. Austin	178
	Gilbert Ryle	180
	Noam Chomsky	182
	The Postmodernists
	Claude Levi-Strauss	184
	Michel Foucault	186
	Jacques Derrida	188
	The New Scientists
	Emile Durkheim	190
	Albert Einstein	192
	Karl Popper	194
	Kurt Godel	196
	Alan Turing	198
	B.F. Skinner	200
	Thomas Kuhn	202
	Paul Feyerabend	204
	W.V.O. Quine	206

Editorial Reviews

Gr 10 Up-This book takes a thematic and then chronological approach to its subject. The philosophers are first grouped by their school of thought, clearly outlined on the contents page. Within each division, Stokes includes several examples, showing the progression of that philosophy over time. For example, existentialism is traced from Kierkegaard through Heidegger and Sartre to de Beauvoir. Each entry is two pages long, and includes a black-and-white illustration or photo of the philosopher. No biographical information is included beyond a general comment about nationality or education. Instead, readers are given a summary of each individual's contribution to the "science" of philosophy. There are cross-references throughout, indicated by boldface type. The glossary seeks to clarify some of the more difficult terms and concepts. This is not a work for beginners; both the vocabulary and content make it appropriate for more mature readers. Overall, however, it is a valuable introduction to some of the world's great thinkers.-Elizabeth M. Reardon, McCallie School, Chattanooga, TN Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

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