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Ancient Philosophy 700 BCE- 250 CE

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Lao Zi•“The dao that can be told is not the eternal dao.”

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Pythagoras•“Reason is immortal, all else mortal.”

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Buddha•“Happy is he who has overcome his ego.”

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Confucius•“Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.”

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Heraclatus•“Every-thing is flux.”

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Protagoras•“Man is the measure of all things.”

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Mozi•“When one throws to me a peach, I return to him a plum.”

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Democritus & Leucippus

•“Nothing exists except atoms and empty space.”

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Socrates, Plato & Aristotle

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Socrates•“I am a citizen of the world.”

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Socrates•“I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.”

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Socrates•“The life which is unexamined is not worth living.”

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Plato• “If particulars

are to have meaning, there must be universals.”

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Plato•“Earthly knowledge is but shadow.”

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Plato• “What we call

learning is only a process of recollection.”

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Aristotle•“All men by nature desire to know.”

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Aristotle•“There never was a time when there was not motion.”

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Aristotle•“Truth resides in the world around us.”

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Aristotle• “Every action

must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.”

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Diogenes of Sinope•“He has the most who is most content with the least.”

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Medieval Philosophy

250-1500

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St. Augustine of Hippo• “What made

Adam capable of obeying God’s commands also made him able to sin.”

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St. Augustine of Hippo

•“God is not the parent of evil.”

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Avicenna•“The soul is distinct from the body.”

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St. Anselm•“Just by thinking about God we can know he exists.”

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Averroes•“Philosophy and religion are not incompatible.”

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Maimonides•“God has no attributes.”

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St. Thomas Aquinas

•“The universe has not always existed.”

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St. Thomas Aquinas• “God could

have made the universe without humans and then made them.”

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Desiderius Erasmus

•“To know nothing is the happiest life.”

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Philosophy of the Renaissance

& the Age of Reason

1500-1750

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Niccolò Machiavelli•“The end justifies the means.”

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Niccolò Machiavelli• “How difficult it

is for a people accustomed to live under a prince to preserve their liberty!”

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Michel de Montaigne•“Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.”

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René Descartes •“Cogito ergo sum.”

•“I think therefore I am.”

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René Descartes •“But what is I that I am? A thinking thing.”

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Francis Bacon•“Knowledge is power.”

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Thomas Hobbes•“Life is but a motion of limbs.”

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Thomas Hobbes•“Man is a machine.”

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Blaise Pascal• “Imagination

decides everything.”

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John Locke•“No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.”

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John Locke•“There is nothing in the mind except was first in the senses.”

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Gottfried Leibniz• “There are

two kinds of truths: truths of reasoning and truths of facts.”

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George Berkeley•“To be is to be perceived.”

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Philosophy of the Age of Revolution1750-1900

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Voltaire•“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.”

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau• “L’homme est

né libre et partout il est dans les fers.”

• “Man was born free, yet everywhere he is in chains.”

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Adam Smith•“Man is an animal that makes bargains.”

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Immanuel Kant•“There are two worlds: our bodies and the external world.”

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Edmund Burke•“Society is indeed a contract.”

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Jeremy Bentham•“The greatest happiness for the greatest number.”

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Mary Wollstonecraft

•“Mind has no gender.”

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Georg Hegel•“Reality is a historical process.”

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Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach

• “Theology is anthropology.”

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Søren Kierkegaard•“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”

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John Stuart Mill•“Over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.”

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Karl Marx• “The history

of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle.”

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Henry David Thoreau•“Must the citizen ever resign his conscience to the legislator.”

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William James•“Act as if what you do makes a difference.”

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Modern Philosophy 1900-1950

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Friedrich Nietzsche•“Man is something to be surpassed.”

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Ferdinand de Saussure

•“Every message is made of signs.”

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John Dewey•“We only think when we are confronted with problems.”

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Bertrand Russell• “The world

has become more like that of Machiavelli.”

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Ludwig Wittgenstein•“The limits of my language are the limits of my world.”

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Martin Heidegger•“We are ourselves the entities to be analyzed.”

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Herbert Marcuse•“That which is cannot be true.”

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Karl Popper• “In so far as a

scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable.”

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Theodor Adorno•“Intelligence is a moral category.”

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Jean-Paul Sartre•“Existence precedes essence.”

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Emmanuel Levinas•“Reason lives in language.”

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Simone de Beauvoir•“Man is defined as a human being and woman as a female.”

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Simone de Beauvoir• “Representation

of the world is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view.”

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William van Orman Quine

•“Language is a social art.”

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Albert Camus•“Life will be lived all the better if it has no meaning.”

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Contemporary Philosophy

1950-Present

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Thomas Kuhn• “Normal

science does not aim at novelties of fact or theories.”

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John Rawls• “The

principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.”

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Jean-François Lyotard

•“Knowledge is produced to be sold.”

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Frantz Fanon•“For the black man, there is only one destiny and it is white.”

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Michel Foucault•“Man is an invention of recent date.”

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Noam Chomsky•“If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.”

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Jürgen Habermas •“Society is dependent upon a criticism of its own tradition.”

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Jacques Derrida•“There is nothing outside of the text.”

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Edward Said• “Every empire

tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires.”

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Stephen Hawking• “One may say

that time had a beginning at the Big Bang, in the sense that earlier times simply would not be defined.”

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Hélène Cixous •“Thought has always worked by opposition.”

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Peter Singer•“In suffering, the animals are our equals.”

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Alan Sokal•“But why did I do it? I confess

that I'm an unabashed Old Leftist who never quite understood how deconstruction was supposed to help the working class. And I'm a stodgy old scientist who believes, naively, that there exists an external world, that there exist objective truths about that world, and that my job is to discover some of them. ”

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Alan Sokal•“Anyone who believes

that the laws of physics are mere social conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions from the windows of my apartment. (I live on the twenty-first floor.)”

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References:•The philosophy book: Big ideas simply explained. (2011). London & New York: DK.

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