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William Whewell, The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences: Founded upon their History, 1840; Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance, 1841; Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or, 1843; Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling, 1843; John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, 1843; Søren Kierkegaard, The Concept of Anxiety, 1844
First translator of Plato's complete extant works into Latin. Pico della Mirandola (1463–1494). Renaissance humanist. Desiderius Erasmus (1466–1536). Humanist, advocate of free will. Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527). Political realism. Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543). Scientist, whose works affected Philosophy of Science. Sir Thomas ...
This is a list of lists of philosophers, organized by subarea, nationality, religion, and time period. Lists of philosophers by subfield. List of aestheticians;
Author of the widely-circulated and influential work in French, not Latin, Dictionnaire historique et critique, and "Nouvelles de la république des lettres"; following Spinoza and others he was an advocate tolerance between the different religious beliefs. James Beattie: 1735–1803: Scottish: Poet, moralist, and philosopher. Cesare Beccaria ...
Their translations and commentaries on these ideas worked their way through the Arab West into Spain and Sicily, which became important centers for this transmission of ideas. [1] Western Arabic translations of Greek works (found in Iberia and Sicily) originates in the Greek sources preserved by the Byzantines.
Philosophers (and others important in the history of philosophy), listed alphabetically: Note: This list has a minimal criterion for inclusion and the relevance to philosophy of some individuals on the list is disputed.
An example of this shift is the influential multi-volume work A History of Indian Philosophy by Surendranath Dasgupta (1887–1952). Philosophers during this period were influenced both by their own traditions and by new ideas from Western philosophy. [129] Swami Vivekananda argued that all religions are valid paths toward the divine.
The philosophes (French for 'philosophers') were the intellectuals of the 18th-century European Enlightenment. [1] Few were primarily philosophers; rather, philosophes were public intellectuals who applied reason to the study of many areas of learning, including philosophy, history, science, politics, economics and social issues. They had a ...