The Philosophy Book is a nonfiction book published by DK. Released in 2010, it is a part of DK's Big Ideas Simply Explained series and serves as a guide to the titular subject.
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The Ancient World[]
- Thales of Miletus
- Laozi
- Pythagoras
- Siddhartha Gautama
- Confucius
- Heraclitus
- Parmenides
- Protagoras
- Mozi
- Democritus and Leucippus
- Socrates
- Plato
- Aristotle
- Epicurus
- Diogenes of Sinope
- Zeno of Citium
The Medieval World[]
- St. Augustine of Hippo
- Boethius
- Avicenna
- St. Anselm
- Averroes
- Moses Maimonides
- Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Thomas Aquinas
- Nikolaus von Kues
- Desiderius Erasmus
Renaissance and the Age of Reason[]
- Niccolò Machiavelli
- Michel de Montaigne
- Francis Bacon
- Thomas Hobbes
- René Descartes
- Blaise Pascal
- Benedictus Spinoza
- John Locke
- Gottfried Leibniz
- George Berkeley
The Age of Revolution[]
- Voltaire
- David Hume
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Adam Smith
- Immanuel Kant
- Edmund Burke
- Jeremy Bentham
- Mary Wollstonecraft
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- Friedrich Shlegel
- Georg Hegel
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
- John Stuart Mill
- Søren Kierkegaard
- Karl Marx
- Henry David Thoreau
- Charles Sanders Peirce
- William James
The Modern World[]
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Ahad Ha'am
- Ferdinand de Saussure
- Edmund Husserl
- Henri Bergson
- John Dewey
- George Santayana
- Miguel de Unamuno
- William du Bois
- Bertrand Russell
- Max Scheler
- Karl Jaspers
- José Ortega y Gasset
- Hajime Tanabe
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Martin Heidegger
- Tetsuro Watsuji
- Rudolf Carnap
- Walter Benjamin
- Herbert Marcuse
- Hans-Georg Gadamer
- Karl Popper
- Theodor Adorno
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Hannah Arendt
- Emmanuel Levinas
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Willard Van Orman Quine
- Isiah Berlin
- Arne Naess
- Albert Camus
Contemporary Philosophy[]
- Roland Barthes
- Mary Midgley
- Thomas Kuhn
- John Rawls
- Richard Wollheim
- Paul Feyerabend
- Jean-François Lyotard
- Frantz Fanon
- Michel Foucault
- Noam Chomsky
- Jürgen Habermas
- Jacques Derrida
- Richard Rorty
- Luce Irigaray
- Edward Said
- Hélène Cixous
- Julia Kristeva
- Henry Odera Oruka
- Peter Singer
- Slavoj Žižek
Publisher's summary[]
The Philosophy Book explains more than one hundred of the greatest ideas in philosophy through clear, succinct text and easy-to-follow graphics.
Using straightforward graphics and artworks, as well as thoroughly accessible text that elucidates more than two thousand years of philosophical thought, The Philosophy Book makes abstract concepts concrete.
From moral ethics to the philosophies of religions, The Philosophy Book sheds a light on the famous ideas and thinkers from the ancient world through the present day. Including theories from Pythagoras to Voltaire and Mary Wollstonecraft to Noam Chomsky, The Philosophy Book offers anyone with an interest in philosophy an essential resource to the great philosophers and the views that have shaped our society.
Sources[]
- Goodreads