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Aristotle, Philosophers Squared Index, Plato, Socrates, Thinking about thinking, What is Philosophy?
Philosophers Squared Off means to me — “To assume a fighting stance and be prepared to fight for a philosophical idea.” The quotes in each post are from the internet and can be sourced with a web search. For reference here is Wikipedia’s long list of philosophers. Also, see the older Index list below in Philosophers Squared – Chronological Order.
PHILOSOPHERS SQUARED
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
Anaxagoras (510 – 428 BC) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #29 –
Elizabeth Anscombe (1919 – 2001) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #29B
St. Anselm (1034 – 1109) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #30 –
Antisthenes (445 – 365) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #31 –
St. Thomas Aquinas (1225 – 1274) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #32 –
Hannah Arendt (1906 – 1975) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #32B
Aristotle (384 – 322 BC) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #33 –
Antoine Arnauld (1612 – 1694) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #34 –
St. Augustine of Hippo (354 – 430) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #35 –
Marcus Aurelius (121 – 180) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #36 –
J. L. Austin (1911 – 1960) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #37 –
A. J. Ayer (1910 – 1989) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #38 –
Francis Bacon (1561 – 1626) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #39 –
Simone de Beauvoir (1908 – 1986) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #40 –
Jeremy Bentham (1748 – 1832) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #41 –
Henri Bergson (1859 – 1941) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #42 –
George Berkeley (1685 – 1753) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #43 –
Ambrose Bierce (1843 – 1913) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #44 –
Franz Brentano (1838 – 1917) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #44B
Albert Camus (1913 – 1960) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #45 –
Rudolf Carnap (1891 – 1970) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #46 –
David Chalmers (1966 – fl 2013) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #47 –
Noam Chomsky (1928 – ) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #48 –
Chrysippus (279 – 207 BC) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #49 –
Cicero (106 BC – 43 BC) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #50 –
James C. Collins (1958- ) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #51 –
Auguste Comte (1798 – 1857) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #52 –
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 – 1543) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #53 –
Charles Darwin (1809 – 1882) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #54 –
Charles Galton Darwin (1887 – 1962) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #54C –
Donald Davidson (1917 – 2003) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #54B
Democritus (460 – 370 BC) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #55 –
Daniel Dennett (1942 – ) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #56 –
Jacques Derrida (1930 – 2004) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #57 –
René Descartes (1596 – 1650) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #58 –
John Dewey (1859 – 1952) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #59 –
Denis Diderot (1713 – 1784) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #60 –
Diogenes of Sinope (412 – 323 BC) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #61 –
Michael Dummett (1925 – 2011) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #61B
Émile Durkheim (1858 – 1917) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #62 –
Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #63 –
Empedocles (490 BC – 430 BC) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #64 –
Friedrich Engels (1820 – 1895) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #65 –
Epictetus (55 – 135 AD) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #66 –
Epicurus (341 BC – 270 BC) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #67 –
Erasmus (1466 – 1536) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #68 –
Paul Feyerabend (1924 – 1994) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #69 –
Michel Foucault (1926 – 1984) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #70 –
Gottlob Frege (1848 – 1925) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #71 –
Sigmund Freud (1856 – 1939) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #72 –
Galileo Galilei (1564 – 1642) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #73 –
Kurt Gödel (1906 – 1978) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #74 –
Jurgen Habermas (1929 – ) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #75 –
Jonathan Haidt (1963 – ) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #76 –
Garrett Hardin (1915 – 2003) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #77 –
Georg Hegel (1770 – 1831) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #78 –
Martin Heidegger (1889 – 1976) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #79 –
Heraclitus Ephesus (535 – 475 BC) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #80 –
Christopher Hitchens (1949 – 2011) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #81 –
Thomas Hobbes (1588 – 1679) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #82 –
David Hume (1711 – 1776) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #83 –
Edmund Husserl (1859 – 1938) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #84 –
Hypatia of Alexandria (370 – 415) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #85 –
Imhotep (2650 – 2600 BC) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #86 –
William James (1842 – 1910) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #87 –
Karl Jaspers (1875 – 1961) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #88 –
Carl Jung (1875 – 1961) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #89 –
Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #90 –
John Maynard Keynes (1883 – 1946) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #91 –
Søren Kierkegaard (1813 – 1855) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #92 –
Saul Kripke (1940 – ) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #92B
Thomas Kuhn (1922 – 1996) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #93 –
Ray Kurzweil (1948 – ∞) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #94 –
Gottfried Leibniz (1646 – 1716) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #95 –
Claude Levi-Strauss (1908 – 2009) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #96 –
Vladimir Lenin (1870 – 1924) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #97 –
David Kellogg Lewis (1941 – 2001) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #97B
John Locke (1632 – 1704) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #98 –
Ernst Mach (1838 – 1916) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #99 –
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 – 1527) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #100 –
Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840 – 1914) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #101 –
Nicolas Malebranche (1638 – 1715) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #102 –
Karl Marx (1818 – 1883) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #103 –
Cosimo de Medici (1389 – 1464) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #104 –
Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908 – 1961) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #105 –
John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #106 –
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #107 –
Montesquieu (1689 – 1755) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #108 –
G. E. Moore (1873 – 1958) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #109 –
Thomas More (1478 – 1535) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #110 –
Alfred E. Newman (1953 – ) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #111 –
Isaac Newton (1642 – 1727) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #112 –
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 – 1900) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #113 –
William of Occam (1285 – 1349) — Wiki, – Pic – Maxims #114 –
Thomas Paine (1737 – 1809) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #115 –
Derek Parfit (1942 – 2017) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #116 –
Parmenides (515 – 540 BC) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #117 –
Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #118 –
Charles Peirce (1839 – 1914) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #119 –
Pericles (495 – 429 BC) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #120 –
Philo Judaeus (20 BC – 40 AD) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #121 –
Steven Pinker (1954 – ) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #122 –
Plato (427 – 347 BC) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #122B
Plotinus (204 – 270) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #123 –
Plutarch of Chaeronia (45 – 120) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #124 –
Karl Popper (1902 – 1994) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #125 –
Protagoras (c. 481 – 420 BC) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #126 –
Hilary Putnam (1926 – ) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #126B
W. V. O. Quine (1908 – 2000) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #127 –
Ayn Rand (1905 – 1982) — Wiki – Pic – Video – Maxims #128 –
John Rawls (1921-2002) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #129 –
Thomas Reid (1710 – 1796) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #130 –
Jean-Jac. Rousseau (1712 – 1778) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #131 –
Bertrand Russell (1872 – 1970) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #132 –
Gilbert Ryle (1900 – 1976) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #133 –
Michael Sandel (1953 – ) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #134 –
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 – 1980) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #135 –
Ferdinand Saussure (1857 – 1913) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #136 –
Charles Scamahorn (1935 – ) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #137 –
Friedrich Schelling (1775 – 1852) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #138 –
Friedrich Schiller (1759 – 1805) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #139 –
Moritz Schlick (1882 – 1936) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #140 –
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 – 1860) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #141 –
Duns Scotus (c. 1266 – 1308) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #142 –
Wilfrid Sellars (1912 – 1989) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #143 –
Seneca (4 BC – 65 AD) Wiki – Pic — Maxims #144 –
7 Sages of Ancient Greece (500 BC) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #145 –
John Searle (1932 – fl. 2013) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #146 –
Henry Sidgwick (1838 – 1900) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #147 –
B. F. Skinner (1904 – 1990) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #148 –
Adam Smith (1723 – 1790) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #149 –
Socrates (470 – 399 BC) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #150 –
Baruch Spinoza (1632 – 1677) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #151 –
Peter Frederick Strawson (1919 – 2006) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #151B –
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (1960 – ) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #152 –
Alfred Tarski (1901 – 1983) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #153 –
Thales of Miletus (635 – 543 BC) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #154 –
Theophrastus (372 – 287 BC) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #155 –
Alan Turing (1912 – 1954) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #156 –
Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #157 –
Voltaire (1694 – 1778) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #158 –
Lev Vygotsky (1896 – 1934) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #159 –
Alfred Russel Wallace (1823 – 1913) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #160 –
Alan Watts (1915 – 1973) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #161 –
Alfred N. Whitehead (1861 – 1947) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #162 –
Bernard Williams (1929 – 2003) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #163 –
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 – 1951) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #164 –
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759 – 1797) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #165 –
Xenophanes (570 – 480 BC) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #166 –
Zeno of Citium (333 – 264 BC) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #167 –
Zeno of Elea (490 – 430 BC) — Wiki – Pic – Maxims #168 –
(New count 150 total = # 168 – 2021/02/28. It is obvious that I must make a New Philosophers Squared list that can have a smoother counting system. I’m considering {Maxims # birth year/month/day/hour.} or {# birth year/alphabetical}). The first method can be expanded smoothly to infinity, but requires using unknowable guesses for the timings of the births.)
This looks like a formidable list when considering studying the information, but it is so piddling when facing the possibilities. There have been in excess of one hundred billion people live, and every one of them had a philosophy.
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Thank you Debbie, Carrie and Mike for your support.
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