Philosophers: Research Starters Topic

Philosophers: Research Starters Topic

The philosopher does not possess wisdom lock, stock, and barrel; no one does. However, the philosopher senses what is lacking and seeks what is not possessed or even completely obtainable. He or she does so because the lack of wisdom leads to folly and foolishness of the tragic kind that Athens produced when it took the life of Socrates. By making us aware of ignorance, wondering shows that we do not know as much as we may assume but also that we are not necessarily condemned to ignorance. The possibility of learning can create a yearning for the knowledge that goes beyond information to wisdom. There are numerous Research Starter articles related to and on philosophers. The list below includes the most relevant.

Adam Smith

Aristotle

Auguste Comte

Avicenna

Baruch Spinoza

Bertrand Russell

Confucius

David Hume

Death of Socrates

Edmund Husserl

Epicurus

Francis Bacon

Friedrich Nietzsche

George Berkeley

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Henry David Thoreau

Immanuel Kant

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Paul Sartre

John Stuart Mill

Karl Marx

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Peter Abelard

Plato

René Descartes

Socrates

Søren Kierkegaard

Thomas Aquinas

Thomas Hobbes

Voltaire

William James

William of Ockham

Zeno of Citium

Philosophy: Research Starters Topic