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Subject(s)

• Philosophy—History [Browse]
• Philosophers [Browse]
• Parmenides [Browse]
• Heraclitus of Ephesus [Browse]
• Anselm Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury 1033-1109 [Browse]
• Kant, Immanuel 1724-1804 [Browse]
• Augustine of Hippo, Saint 354-430 [Browse]
• Socrates [Browse]
• Anaximander [Browse]
• Jesus Christ—Biography [Browse]
• Plato [Browse]
• Plotinus [Browse]

Editor

• Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975 [Browse]

Translator

• Manheim, Ralph, 1907-1992 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Biographies [Browse]

Series

• Helen and Kurt Wolff book [More in this series]
• A Helen and Kurt Wolff book

Summary note

[1] The foundations: The paradigmatic individuals: Socrates, Buddha, Confucius, Jesus. The seminal founders of philosophical thought: Plato, Augustine, Kant -- [2] The original thinkers: Anaximander, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Plotinus, Anselm, Nicholas of Cusa, Spinoza, Lao-Tzu, Nagarjuna -- [3] Xenophanes, Democritus, Empedocles, Bruno, Epicurus, Boehme, Schelling, Leibniz, Aristotle, Hegel -- [4] The disturbers: Descartes, Pascal, Lessing, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche. Philosophers in other realms: Einstein, Weber, Marx.

Notes

• Vol. 4 has ed. statement on t.p. verso: First U.S. edition.
• Publisher varies: v. 3-4 , Harcourt Brace & Co.
• "A Helen and Kurt Wolff book"--Vol. 3-4.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• v. 1. The foundations: The paradigmatic individuals: Socrates, Buddha, Confucius, Jesus. The seminal founders of philosophical thought: Plato, Augustine, Kant
• v. 3. Xenophanes, Democritus, Empedocles, Bruno, Epicurus, Boehme, Schelling, Leibniz, Aristotle, Hegel
• v. 4. The disturbers: Descartes, Pascal, Lessing, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche; Philosophers in other realms: Einstein, Weber, Marx.

ISBN

• 0151369437 ((v. 4))
• 9780151369430 ((v. 4))

LCCN

62009436

OCLC

275454

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