The great philosopher : the lives and ideas of history's greatest thinkers /
Stephen Law.
- ix, 374 pages ; 20 cm.
Includes index.
The Buddha.--Confucius.--Parmenides.--Zeno.--Socrates.--Plato.--Aristotle.--Augustine.--Anselm.--Averröes.--Thomas Aquinas.--William of Ockham.--Niccolò Machiavelli.--Francis Bacon.--Thomas Hobbes.--René Descartes.--Blaise Pascal.--John Locke.--Benedictus de Spinoza.--Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.--George Berkeley.--David Hume.--Jean-Jacques Rousseau.--Immanuel Kant.--Jeremy Bentham.--Georg Hegel.--Arthur Schopenhauer.--John Stuart Mill.--Søren Kierkegaard.--Karl Marx.--Charles Sanders Pierce.--William James.--Friedrich Nietzsche.--Gottlob Frege.--Edmund Husserl.--Bertrand Russell.--George Edward Moore.--Ludwig Wittgenstein.--Martin Heidegger Gilbert Ryle Karl Popper.--Jean-Paul Sartre.--Hannah Arendt.--Simone de Beauvoir.--Willard Van Orman Quine.--A.J. Ayer.--Peter Strawson.--Judith.--Jarvis Thomson.--Saul Kripke.--Peter Singer.
"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".