The 100 Most Influential Philosophers of All Time (The Britannica Guide to the World's Most Influential People)

The minds amazing ability of cogitation is encapsulated in the works of our great philosophers. Their ideas, such as I think, therefore I am, have become lasting certitudes, which have influenced important areas of life including art, education, politics, and government. Leading philosophers conduct a rational investigation of Truth to arrive at a set of principles that others believe and adopt. This compendium of the worlds greatest thinkers includes the likes of Confucius, Aristotle, Immanuel Kant, Hannah Arendt, and Ren Descartes. Pythagoras Confucius Heracleitus Parmenides Zeno of Elea Socrates Democritus Plato Aristotle Mencius Zhuangzi Pyrrhon of Elis Epicurus Zeno of Citium Philo Judaeus Marcus Aurelius Nagarjuna Plotinus Sextus Empiricus Saint Augustine Hypatia Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius Śaṅkara Yaqūb ibn Ishāq aṣ-Ṣabāḥ al-Kindī Al-Fārābī Avicenna Rāmānuja Ibn Gabirol Saint Anselm of Canterbury al-Ghazālī Peter Abelard Averroës Zhu Xi Moses Maimonides Ibn al-'Arabī Shinran Saint Thomas Aquinas John Duns Scotus William of Ockham Niccolò Machiavelli Wang Yangming Francis Bacon, Viscount Saint Alban (or Albans), Baron of Verulam Thomas Hobbes René Descartes John Locke Benedict de Spinoza Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Giambattista Vico George Berkeley Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu David Hume Jean-Jacques Rousseau Immanuel Kant Moses Mendelssohn Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet Jeremy Bentham Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Arthur Schopenhauer Auguste Comte John Stuart Mill Søren Kierkegaard Karl Marx Herbert Spencer Wilhelm Dilthey William James Friedrich Nietzsche Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege Edmund Husserl Henri Bergson John Dewey Alfred North Whitehead Benedetto Croce Nishida Kitarō Bertrand Russell G.E. Moore Martin Buber Ludwig Wittgenstein Martin Heidegger Rudolf Carnap Sir Karl Popper Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno Jean-Paul Sartre Hannah Arendt Simone de Beauvoir Willard Van Orman Quine Sir A.J. Ayer Wilfrid Sellars John Rawls Thomas S. Kuhn Michel Foucault Noam Chomsky Jürgeb Gabernas Sir Bernard Williams Jacques Derrida Richard Rorty Robert Nozick Saul Kripke David Kellogg Lewis Peter (Albert David) Singer. It has been said that when it comes to success, it isn't what you know, but who you know. The 100 Most Influential Philosophers of All Time is one title in this 8 book series, in which readers get the best of both worlds. Concise but information-packed biographies detail the lives and life's work of hundreds of leading individuals from an assortment of disciplines. Readers will get to know the foremost minds within science, art, writing, music, invention, politics and philosophy. Each valuable compendium offers a comprehensive index, complementary visuals, and behind-the-scenes details that reveal the very human nature behind world-changing personalities. 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. Collects brief discussions of the lives and philosophical viewpoints of one hundred thinkers throughout history, arranged chronologically by date of birth, including figures from the fields of ontology, epistemology, and ethics