Electrical phenomena attracted the attention of European thinkers as early as the 17th century.
Ryan persuades us to see all subsequent political thinkers as, to some degree, responding to Hobbes's analysis of politics and of human nature.
In this version, French culture prizes reason, formal perfection, and purity of language and is to be admired for its thinkers as much as for its writers.
Thinkers as varied as Marx and Bertrand Russell were certain science, technology and human cooperation were on the verge of liberating humanity from the bondage of labour.
Rather, he dismisses the claim that the Enlightenment was a monolithic movement, a radical orthodoxy that united thinkers as dissimilar as Rousseau and Hume, Voltaire and Adam Smith.
It's a hoary metaphysical debate that has concerned thinkers as diverse as Descartes, Zhuang Zhou and even, arguably, the godfather of philosophy, Plato.
Barsky shows how Harris, as mentor, teacher, and colleague, powerfully influenced figures who came to dominate the twentieth century's political discussion—; thinkers as different as Noam Chomsky and Nathan Glazer.
Popularized by Ivan Turgenev, nurtured by Nietzsche, and confronted by thinkers as diverse as Albert Camus, Thomas Nagel, and Terry Eagleton, nihilism, in Zaretsky's view "isn't what it used to be".
This position has been held by thinkers as diverse as G.W.F.
During the 1800s, the university attracted thinkers as diverse as philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and political scientist Karl Marx.
Succeeding generations of philosophers wrote extensive commentaries on his works, which influenced thinkers as diverse as Aquinas, Spinoza, Leibniz, and Newton.
