A Short History of Modern Philosophy is a lucid, challenging and. At first, I thought philosophy was in danger but after putting this list together I’ve realized that it is doing well. Laura Bassi (1711–1778), philosopher and physicist Harriet Martineau (1802-1876) Helena Blavatsky (1831–1891) Frances Power Cobbe (1822-1904) Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825–1921) D2 Margaret Cavendish (1623–1673) A B C R Émilie du Châtelet (1706–1749) R Sister Nivedita (1867–1911) Catharine Trotter Cockburn (1679–1749) A B C R WThat’s my list for the 4 most influential modern philosophers. He was a great thinker who lived in the eighteenth century, when the world was changing and new ideas were being explored for the very first time. Let’s take a look at 10 great philosophers who will change your life! Immanuel Kant Immanuel Kant, a philosopher from Germany, has been credited as being one of the founding fathers of modern philosophy.Friedrich Nietzsche Karl Marx Avicenna David Hume Martin Heidegger Ludwig Wittgenstein John Locke Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Thomas Aquinas Soren Kierkegaard Edmund Husserl Jean-Paul Sartre Jacques Derrida Michel Foucault Averroes John Stuart Mill William James Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Frege John Dewey Judith Jarvis Thomson Whatever your views on the abortion debate, there’s no denying Thomson’s influence over the issue in the United States of America. Derrida’s seemingly detached central tenet didn’t mean he avoided controversial opinions, since he was an admirer of Karl Marx and Nazi Party member Martin Heidegger.

Top 30 Major Philosophers of the Middle Ages 1- Thomas Aquinas (1225 - 1274, Italy) Theologian, metaphysician and principal representative of scholastic education, was the one who recovered the Aristotelian writings and the first that saw compatible the comments of the Greek philosopher with the Catholic faith. Most hedonistic philosophers would say you should read a book rather than get drunk, as reading is a higher kind of happiness than getting snockered.

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