Sophist and Other Notable Philosophers PDF

 Q. So you think that A. Yes, because they the gods know are gods. everything? A. Yes, of course th...

 Q. So you think that A. Yes, because they the gods know are gods. everything? A. Yes, of course they Q. Do some gods do. They are always disagree with others? fighting. Q. So gods disagree A. I suppose they about what is true must do. and right? Therefore the gods Q. So some gods can A. I suppose that is cannot know be wrong true. everything! sometimes? Mean(virtue)  WESTERN PHILOSOPHY School of Historical Period Main Features, Beliefs Notable Philosophers Thought Ancient Rome Emphasis on morality, Seneca (1st century Stoicism virtue, calm, and Epictetus BCE to 5th century CE) emotional fortitude Marcus Aurelius  WESTERN PHILOSOPHY Historical Period School of Thought Main Features, Beliefs Notable Philosophers Application of St. Thomas Aquinas Medieval Period philosophy to define and Scholasticism St. Augustine (5 to 15th centuries) th explain religious Meister Eckhart doctrines  WESTERN PHILOSOPHY Historical Period School of Thought Main Features, Beliefs Notable Philosophers Emphasis on the human Petrarch Renaissance person; use of philosophy to Desiderius Erasmus Humanism (14th to 17th centuries) understand society, nature, Niccolo Machiavelli and humanity Francois Rabelais  WESTERN PHILOSOPHY Notable Historical Period School of Thought Main Features, Beliefs Philosophers Reason and logic is considered the basis The Enlightenment Rene Descartes of knowledge and belief; man has (17th to 18th Rationalism Immanuel Kant innate knowledge that can be accessed centuries) Gottfried Leibniz through intuition or deduction  WESTERN PHILOSOPHY School of Notable Historical Period Main Features, Beliefs Thought Philosophers The Enlightenment Knowledge is gained through the senses David Hume (17th to 18th Empiricism and experience; reliance on inductive Francis Bacon centuries) reasoning to arrive at generalizations John Locke  WESTERN PHILOSOPHY School of Historical Period Main Features, Beliefs Notable Philosophers Thought Voltaire Social and Discussions on the ideal human The Enlightenment Jean Jacques Rousseau Political situation and society; emphasis (17th to 18th centuries) Thomas Hobbes Philosophy on individual rights and liberties John Stuart Mill  WESTERN PHILOSOPHY Historical School of Notable Main Features, Beliefs Period Thought Philosophers Studies and observes Modern the relation between Period things and laws of Auguste Positivism (19th science; knowledge is Comte century) based on observable phenomena  WESTERN PHILOSOPHY Historical Period School of Thought Main Features, Beliefs Notable Philosophers An action is morally right Modern Period if it produces the greatest Jeremy Bentham Utilitarianism (19th century) good for the greatest John Stuart Mill number of people  WESTERN PHILOSOPHY Historical Period School of Thought Main Features, Beliefs Notable Philosophers Charles Peirce Emphasis on the practical use 20th century Pragmatism William James of knowledge and ideas John Dewey  WESTERN PHILOSOPHY Historical Period School of Thought Main Features, Beliefs Notable Philosophers 20th century Existentialism Human experience is defined by Soren Kierkegaard the views, emotions, and actions Friedrich Nietzsche Martin Heidegger of the individual. Jean Paul Sartre Simone de Beauvoir  WESTERN PHILOSOPHY Historical School of Notable Main Features, Beliefs Period Thought Philosophers Experience is studied based on the Edmund 20th century Phenomenology subjective viewpoint Husserl of the individual.  WESTERN PHILOSOPHY Historical School of Main Features, Notable Period Thought Beliefs Philosophers Man will never understand the 20th Absurdism human condition Albert Camus century and the meaning of life.  WESTERN PHILOSOPHY Notable Historical Period School of Thought Main Features, Beliefs Philosophers Analysis on how Post-modernism knowledge, ideas, and Jacques Derrida 20th century Post-structuralism power relations are Michel Foucault defined