The Philosophers

Introducing Great Western Thinkers
Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-0-19-823861-4
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 141 mm x 211 mm, Gewicht: 445 g

The Philosophers introduces some of the most brilliant minds in history and shows the enduring fascination of their ideas, which shaped our civilization. An illustrious team of authors offer concise and illuminating tours through the lives and thought of the twenty-eight greatest Western philosophers, from Socrates to Sartre. Each chapter is illustrated with a portrait of its subject, guidance is given to further reading, and a chronological table fills in the historical context. This is the ideal way for any reader to learn about these famous thinkers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Honderich, Ted

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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

- Chronological Table

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ted Honderich is Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic at University College London.