Baquet's Guide to the World's Classics: Philosophy

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Mary Wollstonecraft, English Feminist
(1759-1797)

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Name: Mary Wollstonecraft
Birth: April 27, 1759, Spitalfields, London, England
Death: September 10, 1797, Somers Town, London, England
Language: English
Who she was: English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights; known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Included in lists (What's This?): GC

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Ernest Renan, French Philosopher and Historian
(1823-1892)

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Name: (Joseph) Ernest Renan
Birth: February 28, 1823, Tréguier, France
Death: October 2, 1892, Paris, France
Language: French
Who he was: French philosopher and historian who wrote a ground-breaking Life of Jesus and other rationalist works on early Christianity
Included in lists (What's This?): HC

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German Writer
(1729-1781)

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Name: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Birth: January 22, 1729, Kamenz, Germany
Death: February 15, 1781, Braunschweig, Germany
Language: German
Who he was: German writer, philosopher, dramatist, and art critic who wrote Laocoön and Nathan the Wise
Included in lists (What's This?): HC; Bloom

Rabbinic Sayings of the Fathers
(Pirkei Avot)

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Name: Sayings of the Fathers
Known in various spellings: Pirke Aboth, Pirkei Avot, etc.
Dates: "From Moses onward"
Place: From Israel throughout the Diaspora
Language: Hebrew
What it was: Ethical teachings of rabbis across the ages, expressed in pithy verses
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

Baruch Spinoza, Dutch Philosopher
(1632-1677)

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Name: Baruch (or Benedict) Spinoza
Birth: November 24, 1632, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Death: February 21, 1677, The Hague, Netherlands
Languages: Latin, Portuguese, Hebrew, Spanish, Dutch, perhaps French
Who he was: Dutch-born Portuguese Jewish philosopher whose writings laid the groundwork for the Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism. His magnum opus was the Ethics.
Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (+10YP)

Plotinus, Egyptian-Greek Philosopher
(204-270)

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Name: Plotinus
Birth: 204, Lycopolis, Egypt
Death: 270, Campania, Italy
Language: Greek
Who he was: Greek-speaking Egyptian-born mystic philosopher who taught "three principles": the One, the Intellect, and the Soul. Best known for his Enneads.
Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (+10YP)

Joseph Priestley, English Philosopher
(1733-1804)

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Name: Joseph Priestley
Birth: March 24, 1733, Birstall, UK
Death: February 6, 1804, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, USA
Language: English
Who he was: English theologian, natural philosopher, and chemist, who published over 150 works.

Umberto Eco, Italian Writer
(1932-2016)

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Name: Umberto Eco
Birth: January 5, 1932, Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy
Death: February 19, 2016, Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Language: Italian
Who he was: Italian novelist, critic, and philosopher; The Name of the Rose; Foucault's Pendulum; The Island of the Day Before; The Prague Cemetery
Included in lists (What's This?): GC

Iris Murdoch, English Novelist and Philosopher
(1919-1999)

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Name: Jean Iris Murdoch
Known as: Iris Murdoch
Birth: July 15, 1919, Phibsborough, Republic of Ireland
Death: February 8, 1999, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Language: English
Who she was: English novelist and philosopher; Under the Net; The Black Prince; The Sea, the Sea
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

Thomas Kuhn, American Physicist and Philosopher
(1922-1996)

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Name: Thomas Kuhn
Birth: July 18, 1922, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Death: June 17, 1996, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American physicist and philosopher of science; The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Included in lists (What's This?): LRP

Betty Friedan, American Writer
(1921-2006)

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Name: Betty Friedan
Birth: February 4, 1921, Peoria, Illinois, USA
Death: February 4, 2006, Washington, D.C., USA
Language: English
Who she was: American writer; The Feminine Mystique

Simone de Beauvoir, French Novelist and Philosopher
(1908-1986)

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Name: Simone de Beauvoir
Birth: January 9, 1908, Paris, France
Death: April 14, 1986, Paris, France
Language: French
Who she was: French novelist and philosopher; She Came to Stay; The Second Sex; Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

Mircea Eliade, Romanian Historian of Religion
(1907-1986)

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Name: Mircea Eliade
Birth: March 13, 1907, Bucharest, Romania
Death: April 22, 1986, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Language: Romanian, French, English
Who he was: Romanian historian of religion, philosopher, and fiction writer; Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy; Cosmos and History: The Myth of the Eternal Return; The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion; From Primitives to Zen

Ayn Rand, Russian-American Writer
(1905-1982)

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Name: Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum
Known as: Ayn Rand
Birth: February 2, 1905, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Death: March 6, 1982, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Language: Russian, English
Who she was: Russian-American novelist, philosopher, and playwright; The Fountainhead; Atlas Shrugged

Jean-Paul Sartre, French Philosopher and Writer
(1905-1980)

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Name: Jean-Paul Sartre
Birth: June 21, 1905, Paris, France
Death: April 15, 1980, Paris, France
Language: French
Who he was: French philosopher, playwright, novelist, and critic; Nausea; Huis Clos (No Exit); L'Être et le Néant (Being and Nothingness); L'existentialisme est un humanisme (Existentialism is a Humanism)
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom; GC

Marshall McLuhan, Canadian Philosopher
(1911-1980)

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Name: Herbert Marshall McLuhan
Known as: Marshall McLuhan
Birth: July 21, 1911, Edmonton, Canada
Death: December 31, 1980, Toronto, Canada
Language: English
Who he was: Canadian philosopher; The Mechanical Bride; The Gutenberg Galaxy; Understanding Media; The Medium is the Massage; War and Peace in the Global Village; From Cliché to Archetype

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-British Philosopher
(1889-1951)

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Name: Ludwig Wittgenstein
Birth: April 26, 1889, Vienna, Austria
Death: April 29, 1951, Cambridge, England, UK
Language: German, English
Who he was: Austrian-British philosopher; Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus; Philosophical Investigations

Erwin Schrodinger, Austrian Physicist
and Philosopher of Science (1887-1961)

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Name: Erwin Schrodinger
Birth: August 12, 1887, Vienna, Austria
Death: January 4, 1961, Vienna, Austria
Language: German
Who he was: Austrian physicist and philosopher of science; Science and the Human Temperament; Science and Humanism; My View of the World; What Is Life?; Nobel Prize in Physics (1933)

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French Philosopher
(1881-1955)

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Name: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Birth: May 1, 1881, Orcines, France
Death: April 10, 1955, New York City, New York, USA
Language: French
Who he was: French philosopher and Jesuit priest; The Phenomenon of Man; The Divine Milieu; The Future of Man; letters and essays

G. K. Chesterton, English Writer
(1874-1936)

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Name: Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Known as: G. K. Chesterton
Birth: May 29, 1874, Kensington, London, England, UK
Death: June 14, 1936, Beaconsfield, England, UK
Language: English
Who he was: English poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, lay theologian, biographer, and critic; novels The Napoleon of Notting Hill and The Man Who Was Thursday; the Father Brown stories; theological works Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom; GC

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