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MOC - Modern Philosophers

Modern Philosophers %% Leaving the Middle Ages %% "Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World." - Columbus [[Aristotle]...

Plutarch

Plutarch Britannica link Wrote Plutarch's Lives, biographies of ancient Greeks & Romans, compared with each other. They were intende...

Homer

Homer Contributed a lot to the Greek idea of gods ![[God#Greek Deities]]

Shakespeare

Shakespeare Timeline of Life 1485 - end of War of Roses 1533 - Queen Elizabeth begins reign 1564 - Wm Shakespeare born on Stratford upon...

Aristotle

Aristotle Books [[Aristotle, Poetics|Poetics]] [[Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics|Nicomachean Ethics]] [[Aristotle, Categories|Cate...

Berkeley

Berkeley Bkgrd Info 1685-1753 bishop in the Irish church Mission to the Americas Epistemology idealist - de...

Burke

Burke Background tended to be progressive e.g. in favor of Am Rev, Irish independence but still wrote against Fre...

Comte

Comte Notes into phrenology

Descartes

Rene Descartes Background Info 1596-1650 educated at Univ of Paris Catholic Christian not an academic ...

Hegel

Hegel Wrote: [[Hegel, Intro to Philosophy of History|Intro to Philosophy of History]] Notes absolute idealist key member of [[Germ...

Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes Wrote [[Hobbes, Leviathan]] Do people have the natural ability to be good? Hobbes -> no - humans left to their own de...

Hume

David Hume Wrote [[Hume, Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding]] Wrote a History of England Bkgrd Info 1711-1776 Scottish studi...

Kant

Kant Wrote [[Kant, What is Enlightenment?]] Man's primary problem isn't sin; it's that he doesn't have the freedom to reason & be enl...

Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard Notes took Hegel's historical progress model and applied that to people Parts of a life aest...

Locke

John Locke [[Locke, Two Treatises of Government]] [[MOC - Modern Philosophers#Hobbes vs Locke ...

Malthus

Malthus Wrote [[Malthus, Essay on the Principle of Population]] ![[Malthus, Essay on the Principle of Population#Summary]]

Marx

Marx Notes alienation of labor is bad ([[Romanticism|a romantic tendency]]) solution: new economic system

Mill

Mill Notes problem isn't [[Industrial Revolution]], it is some of the effects of it we need to rethink how to treat people in a busi...

Nietzche

Nietzche Notes same religious critique of [[Kierkegaard]]: religion is superficial so ditch religion

Pascal

Blaise Pascal Summary of Vacuum Experiments Pascal wrote about the vacuum. First he explained why the Ancients' opinion on the vacuum wa...

Plato

Plato Athenian philosopher during the Classical period of Greece. Disciple of Socrates, and wrote down his (purported) dialogues. Books ...

Pre-Socratics

Pre-Socratics Starting to begin Philosophizing moving away from myth toward [[Philosophy]] Upanishads, atman, Brahma ...

Reid

Thomas Reid [[Reid, Inquiry & Essays]] Bkgrd info (copied fr. Kate) important figure in the Scottish Enlightenment (18th century)...

Rousseau

Rousseau Wrote [[Rousseau, Social Contract|The Social Contract]]

Schopenhauer

Schopenhauer Notes all of rationality is desires we are a slave of passions & desires Buddhist influences t...

Smith

Adam Smith Wrote [[Smith, Wealth of Nations]] (Also wrote Theory of Moral Sentiments (based on [[Hume]]) in 1759) Smith was a moral phil...

Socrates

Socrates Beliefs of the Sophists abandoning the mythical religions appeal to just reason found it futile to seek absolute truth ...

Thoreau

Thoreau Notes similar to [[Kierkegaard]], focuses on concrete problems of living in the world as a human being into science, nature ...

Voltaire

Voltaire Voltaire was responding to philosophers, Kant, in writing [[Voltaire, Candide]] did he have a positive philosophy? ...

Augustus Caesar

Augustus Caesar Notes maternal great-nephew of Julius Caesar Rome was allergic to Kings Problem: rule w/o appearing to be king S...

Charles I

Charles I of England Father: [[James I]] chief minister Thomas Wentworth instituted the thorough policy goal: absolute r...

Hannibal

Hannibal Father, Hasdarubal, instilled hatred for Romans Fought Fabius, the roman general

Henry VIII

Henry VIII 1491-1547 Married Catherine of Aragon, who was the daughter of Ferdinand & Isabella, who united Spain by marring. So when ...

James I

James I of England was James VI of Scotland (r. 1603-1625) succeeded the very popular Elizabeth inherited debt & a religious ...

Napoleon

Napoleon Conditions for Rise after [[French Revolution]], extreme ideological nationalism disregard for human life centralized pow...

Wellington

Wellington Summary

Bacon

Francis Bacon Class Notes Four Idols of False Knowing 1) Idols of the tribe 2) Idols of the cave (your personal bias) 3) Idols of the ma...

Boyle

Robert Boyle Summary of Mechanical Principles Boyle wrote about mechanical principles, and the ways we make sense of mechanics. He says ...

Kepler

Kepler Against Ursus: Ursus: doesn't care if the hypothesis is true, as long as it works

Newton

Newton came up with a limited small number of principles & explained everything with it he was all the rage at the time of Reid,...

Pascal

Pascal Wrote [[Pascal, Vacuum|Vacuum]] believes theology can be combined w/ science thinks we should keep discovering things & b...

Calvin

John Calvin Institutes ![[Calvin, Institutes#Summary of excerpt]]

Edwards

Jonathan Edwards Wrote [[Edwards, Religious Affections|Religious Affections]] and [[Resolutions of Jonathan Edwards]]

Luther

Martin Luther Wrote [[Luther, Freedom of a Christian|Freedom of a Christian]] Background trained as lawyer became monk felt very ...

Whitfield

Whitfield Background (taken from Kate) George Whitefield, a minister from Britain, had a significant impact during the Great Awakening...

Freud

Freud Notes