101 Great Philosophers
Makers of Modern Thought

A guide to 101 thinkers in the history of philosophy. It summarizes contributions of 101 key philosophers who have made to the development of philosophical thought, since the ancient Greeks. It offers a glimpse into each philosopher's life and work.

101 Great Philosophers is a concise and accessible guide to 101 of the greatest minds that contributed to the legacy of western philosophy. From the ancient Greeks to present-day thinkers, Madsen Pirie employs concise entries to give a snapshot of the contribution made by 100 key philosophers to the development of this fascinating subject. This book provides a sparkling insight into the lives and times of each philosopher covered - explaining just why what they had to say was so innovative and inspiring. Essential reading for anyone coming to the subject for the first time, this book is an indispensible introduction to the most important ideas in the history of western thought.

Introduction
101 Great Philosophers [provisional list]
Anaxagoras
Anaximander
Anselm
Antisthenes
Aquinas
Archimedes
Aristotle
Augustine
Ayer
Bacon
Bakunin
Bastiat
de Beauvoir
Bentham
Berkeley
Burke
Carnap
de Chardin
Chomsky
Comte
Democritus
Derrida
Descartes
Dewey
Diderot
Diogenes
Diogenes Laertius
Empedocles
Empiricus
Epictetus
Epicurus
Erasmus
Ferguson
Feuerbach
Franklin
Galileo
Gasset
Hayek
Hegel
Heidegger
Heraclitus
Hobbes
Hume
James
Jefferson
Kant
Kierkegaard
Koestler
Kuhn
Lakatos
Leibniz
Locke
Machiavelli
Mandeville
Marcus Aurelius
Marcuse
Marx
Mill
Montesquieu
Moore
Newton
Nietzsche
Nozick
Oakeshott
Ockham
Parmenides
Pascal
Peirce
Petrarch
Plato
Plotinus
Popper
Protagoras
Proudhon
Ptolemy
Pythagoras
Quine
Rand
Rawls
Rousseau
Ryle
Russell
Sartre
Schopenhauer
Seneca
Shelley
Smith
Socrates
Spencer
Spinoza
Strawson
Thales
Vico
Voltaire
Weber
Weil
Wittgenstein
Wollstonecraft
Xenophanes
Zeno
List of entries.