Briefly 25 Great Philosophers From Plato To Sartre

Author : Davild Mills Daniel
Publisher : SCM Press
ISBN 13 : 0334048125
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Briefly: 25 Great Philosophers From Plato to Sartre written by Davild Mills Daniel and published by SCM Press. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SCM Briefly 25 Great Philosophers offers a brief guide to the lives, writings and principal philosophical ideas of some of the world’s great philosophers, from Plato to Jean Paul Sartre. Here is a brief and accessible introduction to philosophy and its main proponents. In only five pages, readers get an introduction to the life, the context and the writing of each philosopher. A glossary of philosophical terms is provided at the end of the book

Author : Jeffrey Reid
Publisher : Broadview Press Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Philosophers written by Jeffrey Reid and published by Broadview Press Incorporated. This book was released on 2008-12-16 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Philosophers tells the story of Western philosophy through the thought of its main protagonists, the great philosophers. The narrative begins with the Presocratic philosophers Heraclitus and Parmenides and ends in recent times, as each philosopher wrestles with the problems and solutions of his or her predecessors. Along the way, Jeffrey Reid provides an engaging introduction to many of the principal ideas of luminaries such as Plato, Descartes, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche and Sartre. Great Philosophers not only provides an ideal introduction to philosophical thought, but also an original understanding of the discipline of philosophy itself. The book aims not only to recount an important tradition, but also to reveal something about how it has affected who we are.

Author : T.Z. Lavine
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0307793575
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Socrates to Sartre written by T.Z. Lavine and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2011-05-04 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A challenging new look at the great thinkers whose ides have shaped our civilization From Socrates to Sartre presents a rousing and readable introduction to the lives, and times of the great philosophers. This thought-provoking book takes us from the inception of Western society in Plato’s Athens to today when the commanding power of Marxism has captured one third of the world. T. Z. Lavine, Elton Professor of Philosophy at George Washington University, makes philosophy come alive with astonishing clarity to give us a deeper, more meaningful understanding of ourselves and our times. From Socrates to Sartre discusses Western philosophers in terms of the historical and intellectual environment which influenced them, and it connects their lasting ideas to the public and private choices we face in America today. From Socrates to Sartre formed the basis of from the PBS television series of the same name.

Author : David Mills Daniel
Publisher : SCM Press
ISBN 13 : 0334048338
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Briefly: Fletcher's Situation Ethics written by David Mills Daniel and published by SCM Press. This book was released on 2013-01-25 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses Fletcher's situation ethics which basically states that sometimes other moral principles can be cast aside in certain situations if love is best served. It is one of the main ethical theories studied in all introductory courses on Christian ethics.

Author : Samuel Enoch Stumpf
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
ISBN 13 : 9780070623804
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Socrates to Sartre written by Samuel Enoch Stumpf and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages. This book was released on 1988 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive, historically organized introduction to philosophy communicates the richness of the discipline and provides the student with a working knowledge of the development of Western philosophy. With a lively and approachable style it covers the principal contributions of Western civilization's most influential philosophers. It provides ample detail without complicating minutiae.

Author : David Mills Daniel
Publisher : SCM Press
ISBN 13 : 0334048362
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Briefly: Kant's Critique of Practical Reason written by David Mills Daniel and published by SCM Press. This book was released on 2013-01-25 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason (1788) is one of his most important works and a key text to understanding Kant’s philosophy and it the impact it had on later developments of moral philosophy and ethics.

Author : Stephen Law
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 184916746X
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Philosophers written by Stephen Law and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Britannica Educational Publishing
Publisher : Britannica Educational Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1615300570
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The 100 Most Influential Philosophers of All Time written by Britannica Educational Publishing and published by Britannica Educational Publishing. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I think, therefore I am influential. Leading philosophers conduct a rational investigation of truth to arrive at a set of principles that others believe and adopt. This compendium of the world’s greatest thinkers includes the likes of Confucius, Aristotle, Immanuel Kant, Hannah Arendt, and René Descartes.

Author : Ted Honderich
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780192854186
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Philosophers written by Ted Honderich and published by Oxford Paperbacks. This book was released on 2001-03-15 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 illuminates their legacy for our time.

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ISBN 13 : 9780753811368
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Philosophers written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Philosophers brings together in one volume and in chronological order the best from our hugely successful series: Anthony Gottlieb on Socrates; Bernard Williams on Plato; John Cottingham on Descartes; Roger Scruton on Spinoza; David Berman on Berkeley; Anthony Quinton on Hume; Terry Eagleton on Marx; Ray Monk on Russell; Jonathan Ree on Heidegger; Peter Hacker on Wittgenstein; Frederic Raphael on Popper Andrew Hodges on Turing.