Top Philosophers 1 group 3 by Dr. Swope

Rene Descartes

swopepsych — 2015-10-23 14:40:16 UTC

March 31, 1596-February 11,1650

Dualism process of mind controlling body but body influence mind

Emphasize reason to develop natural sciences

Immanuel Kant

swopepsych — 2015-10-23 14:40:11 UTC

Born: April 22nd, 1724

Died: February 12th, 1804

Believed that reason is the source of morality. Central figure for modern philosophy, and affected the Copernican revolution.

Baruch Spinoza

swopepsych — 2015-10-23 14:41:01 UTC

Born: November 24th, 1632

Died: February 21st, 1677

Important rationalist who produced ideas for Enlightenment. He also opposed Descartes' mind-body dualism, making him a widely known thinker.

Hobbes

swopepsych — 2015-10-23 14:41:06 UTC

Frege

swopepsych — 2015-10-23 14:40:34 UTC

Hegel

swopepsych — 2015-10-23 14:40:55 UTC

Plato

swopepsych — 2015-10-23 14:40:06 UTC

428 BC-348 BC

A cited founder of western religion by influencing St. Augustine

Known for the Allegory of the Cave

Ludwig Wittgenstein

swopepsych — 2015-10-23 14:40:30 UTC

26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951

He came up with the Tractatus, which is the belief that problems come from misunderstanding logic of language. He liked religion but never committed himself to one.

Karl Marx

swopepsych — 2015-10-23 14:41:11 UTC

May 5, 1818-March 14, 1883

Wrote the communist manifesto

Developed the theory of human nature

Kierkegaard

swopepsych — 2015-10-23 14:41:17 UTC

Thomas Hobbes,

376428 — 2015-10-26 14:38:47 UTC

born April 5 1588, died December 4 1679. Known for work on political philosophy, was an English philosopher. Hobbes also developed some of the fundamentals of European Liberal thought.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

982568 — 2015-10-26 14:39:20 UTC

August 27, 1770 – November 14, 183

new form of logic and thinking called speculative reason to surpass what he saw as limitations of common sense and of traditional philosophy at grasping philosophical problems and the relation between thought and reality. His method was to begin with ultra-basic concepts, for example Being and Nothing, to develop through a sequence of elaborations aiming towards solutions that take the form of series of concepts.

Gottlob frege

376428 — 2015-10-26 14:44:55 UTC

Born nov 8 1848, died july 26 1925. Was a German philosopher, mathematician and logician. constituted the first ‘predicate calculus’.

376428 — 2015-10-26 14:51:06 UTC

born may 5 1813, died Nov 11 1855. Danish philosopher theologian, poet, social critic and religious author.Kierkegaard's early work was written under various pseudonyms that he used to present distinctive viewpoints and to interact with each other in complex dialogue.