The great philosophers guide - free with the print edition

The Independent has created a 14-day series on ‘The Great Philosophers’, covering the lives and work of some of history’s greatest thinkers.

The series starts on Saturday 2 February and continues every day until Friday 15 February.

Saturday 2 February
1. Introduction:
Introduction to Philosophy and ‘The Great Philosophers’
Glossary of Key Terms
Socrates

Sunday 3 February
2. Ancient and Medieval:
Plato
Aristotle
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Monday 4 February
3. Renaissance:
Niccolò Machiavelli
Francis Bacon
Averroes

Tuesday 5 February
4. 17th Century:
Thomas Hobbes
René Descartes
Blaise Pascal

Wednesday 6 February
5. 17th Century:
John Locke
Baruch Spinoza
Gottfried Leibniz

Thursday 7 February
6. 18th Century:
George Berkeley
Voltaire
David Hume

Friday 8 February
7. 18th Century:
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Immanuel Kant
Thomas Paine

Saturday 9 February
8. 18th Century:
Jeremy Bentham
Georg Hegel
Edmund Burke

Sunday 10 February
9. 19th Century:
Arthur Schopenhauer
John Stuart Mill
Søren Kierkegaard

Monday 11 February
10. 19th Century:
Karl Marx
Charles Sanders Peirce
William James

Tuesday 12 February
11. 19th Century:
Friedrich Nietzsche
Edmund Husserl
John Dewey

Wednesday 13 February
12. 20th Century:
Bertrand Russell
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Martin Heidegger

Thursday 14 February
13. 20th Century:
Sir Karl Popper
Jean-Paul Sartre
Michel Foucault

Friday 15 February
14: The Other Greats:
Augustine
Aurelius
Ayer
De Beauvoir
Darwin
Freud
Pythagoras
Singer
Adam Smith
Wollstonecraft

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Content for this series is extracted from The Great Philosophers by Jeremy Stangroom and James Garvey published by Arcturus Publishing Ltd.

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