| Edition |
First American edition. |
| Description |
64 pages : color illustrations, map ; 29 cm |
| Summary |
Introduces over twenty-five of the world's greatest philosophers and presents a simple version of the tenets of philosophy. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Contents: The history of Western philosophy through the lives of great philosophers: The early Greeks: Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes, Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Empedocles -- Socrates -- Plato -- Aristotle -- Epicurus and Zeno -- Hypatia -- St. Thomas Aquinas -- Rene Descarte -- Baruch Spinoza -- John Locke -- David Hume -- Immanual Kant -- G.W.F. Hegel -- Friedrich Nietzsche -- Edmund Husserl -- John Dewey -- Ludwig Wittgenstein -- Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir -- Philosophy today: Foucault, Derrida, Popper, Kuhn, Feyerabend, Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse --- Schools of philosophy: Socrates: the father of Western philosophy -- The Pre-Socratic philosophers -- Greek schools after Socrates -- The idealists -- The materialists -- The scholastics -- The rationalists -- The empiricists -- The pragmatists -- The phenomenologists -- The existentialists -- Feminist philosophers -- The postmodernists. |
| Subject |
Philosophy -- Juvenile literature.
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Philosophers -- Juvenile literature.
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Philosophy.
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Philosophers.
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| Added Title |
Guide to philosophy |
| ISBN |
0789430746 |
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9780789430748 |
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