Opening book details…
Can I read The Philosophers - Introducing Great Western Thinkers on EtoBox?
The Philosophers - Introducing Great Western Thinkers by Ted Honderich is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Philosophers - Introducing Great Western Thinkers about?
<p><p>what Better Introduction To The World Of Philosophy Than Through The Lives Of Its Most Prominent Citizens. In <b>the Philosophers</b>, We Are Introduced To Twenty-eight Of The Greatest Thinkers In Western Civilization, Ranging From Aristotle And Plato To Wittgenstein, Heidegger, And Sartre. <br> 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 Con
Who reads The Philosophers - Introducing Great Western Thinkers?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Ted Honderich
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780192854186
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Anthropology, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
Other editions & translations
More by Ted Honderich
Browse all works by Ted Honderich
Similar books
- The Great Philosophers: An Introduction to Western Philosophy (Oxford Paperbacks) — Bryan Magee (1988)
- The Great Philosophers : the Lives and Ideas of History's Greatest Thinkers — Stephen Law (2008)
- Aristotle: The Great Philosophers (The Great Philosophers Series) (Great Philosophers (Routledge (Firm))) — Kenneth McLeish (1999)
- Great Thinkers A-z; Ed. By Julian Baggini — Julian Baggini; Jeremy Stangroom (2004)
- Derrida: The Great Philosophers (The Great Philosophers Series) — Johnson, Christopher, 1958- (1999)
- One Hundred Philosophers : the Life and Work of the World's Greatest Thinkers — Peter J., Ph.D. King (2004)