Publication Date: January 08, 2019
Publisher: Random House Audio
Format: Audible Audio
Authors: Will Buckingham, Jason Culp, Lao Tzu, Pythagoras, Siddhartha Gautama, Confucius, Thales, Parmenides, Protagoras, Mozi, Democritus, Leucippus, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Diogenes of Sinope, Zeno of Citium, Augustine of Hippo, Boethius, Avicenna, St. Anslem, ibn Rushd, Maimonides, Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi, Thomas Aquinas, Nicholas of Cusa, Erasmus, Niccolo Machivelli, Michel de Montaigne, Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, René Descartes, Blaise Pascal, Baruch Spinoza, John Locke, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, George Berkeley, Voltaire, David Hume, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, Immanuel Kant, Edmund Burke, Jeremy Betham, Mary Wollstonecraft, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Friedrich Schlegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Arthur Schopenhauer, Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach, John Stuart Mill, Søren Kierkegaard, Karl Marx, Henry David Thoreau, Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ahad Ha'am, Ferdinand de Saussure, Edmund Husserl, Henri Bergson, John Dewey, George Santayana, Miguel de Unamuno, William du Bois, Bertrand Russell, Max Scheler, Karl Jaspers, José Ortega y Gasset, Hajime Tanabe, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Martin Heidegger, Tetsuro Watsuji, Rudolf Carnap, Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Karl Popper, Theodor W. Adorno, Jean-Paul Sartre, Hannah Arendt, Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Simone de Beauvoir, Willard Van Orman Quine, Isaiah Berlin, Arne Næss, Albert Camus, Roland Barthes, Mary Midgley, Thomas S. Kuhn, John Rawls, Richard Wollheim, Paul Feyerabed, Jean-François Lyotard, Frantz Fanon, Michel Foucault, Noam Chomsky, Jürgen Habermas, Jacques Derrida, Richard Rorty, Luce Irigaray, Edward W. Said, Hélène Cixous, Julia Kristeva, Henry Odera Oruka, Peter Singer, Slavoj Žižek, Douglas Burnham, Peter J. King, Clive Hill, Marcus Weeks, John Marenbon, Siddhartha Guatama, Heraclitus
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