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| Material Type: | Biography |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Ian Philip McGreal |
| ISBN: | 006270026X 9780062700261 0062720171 9780062720177 |
| OCLC Number: | 24795245 |
| Description: | xiii, 572 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Parmenides -- Zeno of Elea -- Protagoras of Abdera -- Hippocrates -- Plato -- Aristotle -- Euclid -- Epicurus -- Archimedes -- Epictetus -- Ptolemy -- Marcus Aurelius -- Sextus Empiricus -- Origen -- Plotinus -- Saint Augustine -- Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius -- Saint Anselm of Canterbury -- Peter Abelard -- Saint Bernard of Clairvaux -- Moses Maimonides -- Saint Bonaventure -- Saint Thomas Aquinas -- Meister Eckhart -- Dante Alighieri -- William of Ockham -- Desiderius Erasmus -- Niccolo Machiavelli -- Nicolas Copernicus -- Thomas More -- Martin Luther -- John Calvin -- Saint Teresa of Avila -- Michel de Montaigne -- Saint John of the Cross -- Francis Bacon -- Galileo Galilei -- Johannes Kepler -- Thomas Hobbes -- Pierre Gassendi -- Rene Descartes -- Henry More -- Ralph Cudworth -- Blaise Pascal -- George Fox -- Benedict Spinoza -- John Locke -- Nicolas Malebranche -- Isaac Newton -- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz -- Pierre Bayle -- Giambattista Vico -- George Berkeley -- Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet) -- Jonathan Edwards -- David Hume -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Adam Smith -- Immanuel Kant -- Thomas Paine -- Marie-Jean Antoine Condorcet -- Marquis de Nicholas de Caritat -- Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier -- Thomas Jefferson -- Jeremy Bentham -- William Godwin -- William Blake -- Mary Wollstonecraft -- Thomas Robert Malthus -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel -- Carl Friedrich Gauss -- Arthur Schopenhauer -- Auguste Comte -- Cardinal John Henry Newman -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- John Stuart Mill -- Charles Darwin -- Soren Kierkegaard -- Henry David Thoreau -- Karl Marx -- Hebert Spencer -- Johann Gregor Mendel -- James Clerk Maxwell -- Dimitri Ivanovich Mendeleev -- Charles Sanders Peirce -- William James -- Friedrich Nietzsche -- Sigmund Freud -- Max Planck -- Edmund Husseri -- Henri Bergson -- John Dewey -- Alfred North Whitehead -- George Santayana -- Max Weber -- Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo -- Benedetto Croce -- Bertrand Russell -- Carl Gustav Jung -- Martin Buber -- Albert Einstein -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin -- Jose Ortega y Gasset -- Niels Bohr -- Paul Tillich -- Erwin Schrodinger -- Robin George Collingwood -- Ludwig Wittgenstein -- Arnold Toynbee -- Martin Heidegger -- Reinhold Niebuhr -- Werner Heisenberg -- Karl Rahner -- Jean-Paul Sartre -- Simone de Beauvoir -- Simone Weil -- Albert Camus. |
| Other Titles: | Major ideas and classic works of more than 100 outstanding Western philosophers, physical and social scientists, psychologists, religious writers, and theologians |
| Responsibility: | edited by Ian P. McGreal. |
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Abstract:
Great Thinkers of the Western World is a concise and authoritative guide to the principal theoretical ideas of the outstanding thinkers in Western History. From Parmenides to Albert Camus, these men and women have profoundly influenced the development of Western civilization through their theories and revolutionary ideas and by providing intellectual, scientific or spiritual illumination. Articles on 116 thinkers are arranged chronologically, making it easy for readers to follow and appreciate the development of ideas from the early Greeks through the first half of the twentieth century. Each article provides basic biographical information, a list of the thinker's major works, a summary of his or her principal ideas, an essay explaining the thinker's most significant theories and indicating his or her place in the history of thought and a brief bibliography of further readings. An absorbing, accessible and highly informative introduction to the greatest minds of Western civilization, Great Thinkers of the Western World improves our understanding of Western thought and how it evolved.
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