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Schopenhauer, World as Will & Idea
Schopenhauer, World as Will & Idea Class Notes world is idea (these ideas drawn from combining [[Hume]] and [[Kant]]) ...
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
De Tocqueville
De Tocqueville Wrote [[De Tocqueville, Old Regime & French Rev.|The Old Regime & the French Revolution]] Also wrote Democracy in...
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 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...
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