Philosophy: A Beginner's Guide - Softcover

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9781848660465: Philosophy: A Beginner's Guide

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ISBN 10: 1848660464 ISBN 13: 9781848660465

Publisher: Quercus

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).

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From the Back Cover:

In a series of concise and easy-to-follow profiles, this essential guide distils the thoughts of the world's most influential minds and explains their answers to some of philosophy's key questions. Who am I? Is there a Supreme Being? What is truth? Do we have free will? Why do bad things happen? How should we live? Is death the end of everything? What is the meaning of life? Philosophers include: Thales; Confucius; Socrates; Plato; Aristotle; Marcus Aurelius; Origen; Averroes; St Thomas Aquinas; William of Ockham; Machiavelli; Hobbes; Descartes; Pascal; Spinoza; Locke; Leibniz; Voltaire; Hume; Rousseau; Smith; Kant; Paine; Hegel; Schopenhauer; JS Mill; Kierkegaard; Marx; Engels; Pierce; James; Nietzsche; Russell; Wittgenstein; Popper; Sartre; Arendt; de Beauvoir; Ayer; Feyerabend; Foucault; Chomsky; Derrida, and many, many more...

About the Author:

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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