Reusing a list of philosophers

[Nimrod]

I compiled a list of Wikipedia links to various philosophers and I thought that it might be helpful in this forum.

Anaxagoras
Anaximander
Anaximenes
Thomas Aquinas
Aristotle
Averroes
Avicenna
Jeremy Bentham
Henri Bergson
Boethius
Martin Buber
Auguste Comte
Confucius
Democritus
John Dewey
Denis Diderot
Empedocles
Friedrich Engels
Epictetus
Epicurus
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Martin Heidegger
Heraclitus
Thomas Hobbes
David Hume
Edmund Husserl
William James
Immanuel Kant
Søren Kierkegaard
Lao Zi
Gottfried Leibniz
John Locke
Lucretius
Niccolo Machiavelli
Maimonides
Marcus Aurelius
Karl Marx
John Stuart Mill
Baron de Montesquieu
G.E._Moore
Thomas More
Friedrich Nietzsche
Parmenides
Blaise Pascal
Charles Sanders Peirce
Plato
Plotinus
Pythagoras
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Bertrand Russell
George Santayana
Jean-Paul Sartre
Arthur Schopenhauer
John Duns Scotus
Adam Smith
Socrates
Baruch Spinoza
Thales of Miletus
Voltaire
Alfred North Whitehead
William of Ockham
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Zeno of Elea

[Solly]

A couple of useful sites:

Epistemelinks
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Note that I am using a UK mirror site for this, so you'll have to find the best one for you.
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

[Duder]

Conspicuously missing from the list is Bishop George Berkeley. I think he really started the modern investigation into the relationship between ideas and things - and he heavily infuenced the way Hume and Kant developed their epistemology and metaphysics.

So look him up and stick him in the list!

[Duder]

Whoops! I see you've got an ancient Ionian, Thales, even though none of his writing survives. In that case, you're going to need a representative of ancient Greek sophism, too. Go with Protagoras.

[Catatle]

perhaps I can score some brownie points by mentioning Francis Bacon...?

[spiritmech]

Foucault.

[Duder]

perhaps I can score some brownie points by mentioning Francis Bacon...?

Nice catch there, Catatle. Indispensible!

[Catatle]

herbert(?) spencer
fitche
schelling
croce
bergson
Gotlob Frege (a most notable omission)

[Jomby]

That's a pretty good list.

Off the top of my head, here's some minor ones:
St. Bonaventure
Alfarabi
Thomas Reid
Hannah Arendt
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Merleau-Ponty
Emmanuel Levinas
Jacques Derrida

[Solly]

Ayn Rand

[C. D. Ward]

Solly: I actually would add Rand to the list. Not that she's a major philospher, but her ideas & writings have influenced millions of people (even if only to disagree with her) and while her metaphysical views weren't as "radical" as her followers might have us believe (i.e., heavily influenced by Aristotle, Kant, & Nietzsche), she had a unique way of stating her views.

I also think that her theory of universals via abstraction and concept formation represents one of the more coherent attempts to explain their existence. Not that it's necessarily successful, just that she attempts to engage the issue at greater length than many others.

[Solly]

Solly: I actually would add Rand to the list. Not that she's a major philospher, but her ideas & writings have influenced millions of people (even if only to disagree with her) and while her metaphysical views weren't as "radical" as her followers might have us believe (i.e., heavily influenced by Aristotle, Kant, & Nietzsche), she had a unique way of stating her views.

I also think that her theory of universals via abstraction and concept formation represents one of the more coherent attempts to explain their existence. Not that it's necessarily successful, just that she attempts to engage the issue at greater length than many others.

Hi Evil Twin

I am inclined to agree with you. I was very surprised, having taken up her imperative to read philosophy, to see where some of her ideas came from, consciously or not. i think she is a bit of a grab bag of ideas though, nietzschean in her artistic temper which affected her politics; she was an attempted rationalist, but basically built castles in the air - what is human nature after all? And who can't help but be influenced by Kant, by being overly transcendant or overly imanent. Yes, she had a big influence, including on me and my country via Margaret Thatcher. I would love to read some serious engagement with her ideas, if only to lay some ghosts to rest.