ABSTRACT

This anthology of readings in contemporary Western philosophy focuses on 19th-century philosophers who represent a variety of responses to the issue of their day: whether or not there was a knowable, nonhuman rational order upon which thinking persons could willfully choose to act. The selections are readable and accessible, yet remain faithful to the original works. Accompanying the text are drawings, diagrams, photographs, and a timeline; all of which allow the reader to really study the major philosophical thinkers of the 19th-century: Bentham, Wollstonecraft, Fichte, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Comte, Feuerbach, Mill, Kierkegaard, Marx, Peirce, James, and Nietzche. For anyone interested in owning a collection of works from the greatest philosophical thinkers in the 19th-century.

chapter |13 pages

Jeremy Bentham

1748–1832

chapter |7 pages

Mary Wollstonecraft

1759–1797

chapter |18 pages

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

1762-1814

chapter |58 pages

G.W.F. Hegel

1770-1831

chapter |28 pages

Arthur Schopenhauer

1788-1860

chapter |14 pages

Auguste Comte

1798–1857

chapter |9 pages

Ludwig Feuerbach

1804–1872

chapter |115 pages

John Stuart Mill

1806-1873

chapter |45 pages

Søren Kierkegaard

1813-1855

chapter |68 pages

Karl Marx

1818-1883

chapter |27 pages

Charles Sanders Peirce

1839–1914

chapter |44 pages

William James

1842-1910

chapter |52 pages

Friedrich Nietzsche

1844-1900