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No Exit - An existentialist play outlining Sartrean philosophy. The Devil and the Good Lord - An existentialist play outlining Sartrean philosophy. Rand, Ayn: 1905-1982 Objectivism: Beckett, Samuel: 1906-1989 Absurdism; Quasi-quietism. Waiting for Godot: One of the most well-known philosophical plays of the twentieth century. Eliade, Mircea ...
The Philosophy in 90 Minutes series, written by Paul Strathern, is a series of short introductory biographical overviews on well-known philosophers, set in brief historical context, along with brief impressions of their philosophies. The books are also produced in audio format; read by narrator Robert Whitfield.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of History, 1822, 1828, 1830, printed 1837; Auguste Comte, Course of Positive Philosophy, 1830–1842; Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1835; William Whewell, The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences: Founded upon their History, 1840; Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance, 1841
Xenocrates (c. 396 – 314 BC). Disciple of Plato. Aristotle (c. 384 – 322 BC). A polymath whose works ranged across all philosophical fields. Theophrastus (c. 371 – c. 287 BC).
The Dream of Reason was "both popular and critically well received" according to the Australian Book Review. [ 2 ] Kirkus Reviews said it was a "[s]uperbly literate, wide-ranging survey" that "rescues philosophy from the dusty textbooks".
studied under Marinus of Neapolis. known for his learning Agathobulus: 1st/2nd century AD Cynic: known for his severe asceticism and teacher of Demonax: Agathosthenes: uncertain date geographer, historian or philosopher referred to by Tzetzes as his authority in matters connected with geography. Agrippa the Skeptic: 1st/2nd century AD Pyrrhonist
Author of Testament, a book length essay, which supplied arguments and rhetoric used by other enlightenment authors such as Denis Diderot, Baron d'Holbach and Voltaire. La Mettrie: 1709–1751: French: Physician and early French materialist philosopher. Best known as author of L'homme machine (Man a Machine). John Millar: 1735–1801: Scottish
Hegel's lectures on the philosophy of history contain one of his most well-known and controversial claims about the notion of freedom: World history is the record of the spirit's efforts to attain knowledge of what it is in itself. The Orientals do not know that the spirit or man as such are free in themselves. And because they do not know that ...