Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Who's Who?

Who’s Who? In Philosophy, it is vital to know who the main philosophers are, and what they philosophized about. I have compiled a list of the big ones, some small ones, and a couple of philosophies they are particularly known for. Some of the big ones, like Plato and Descartes, dabbled in a bit of everything, but I’ll list only the main philosophies. They aren’t in any order yet, I’ll alphabetize them eventually.
Philosopher Name Philosophies

Socrates Kallipolis, Socratic Ignorance, Innate Ideas
Plato Allegory of the Cave, Epistemology, Ethics, Metaphysics, Theory of Forms, Platonic Love, Politics, Essentialism, Platonic Realism
Aristotle Logic, (Virtue) Ethics, Metaphysics, Utilitarianism
René Descartes Rationalism, Skepticism, Epistemology, Rationalism, Dualism, Religion
Friedrich Nietzsche Nihilism, Moral Skepticism, Relativism, Atheism, Ethics, Utilitarianism
John Locke Politics, Epistemology (empiricism)
Søren Kierkegaard Existentialism, Ethics, Religion
David Hume Rationalism, Logical Positivism, Empiricism, Religion, Epistemology, Politics, Determinism
Anselm Ontological Proof
George Berkeley Empiricism, Immaterialism
Georg Hegel Politics
Immanuel Kant Epistemology, Ethics (deontological), Metaphysics
Niccolò Machiavelli Politics
Jean-Paul Sartre Existentialism
Henry Thoreau Transcendentalism, Individualism
Gottfried Leibniz Rationalism, Problem of Evil, Logic
Baruch Spinoza Rationalism, Ethics, Monism

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