Men of Ideas (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: John J. Loeper
- First Published: 1970
- Time of Work: 650 to the 1950’s
- Setting: China, Europe, and the United States
- Principal Characters: Socrates, Confucius, Augustine, René Descartes, Voltaire, Immanuel Kant, Karl Marx, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Søren Kierkegaard, George Santayana
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Intellectuals, Philosophy or philosophers, Communism or communists, France or French people, Existentialism, Enlightenment, Germany or German people, Greek or Roman times, Biography, Intellect, Thought or thinking, Confucianism
- Locales: Europe, United States, China
Form and Content
In this mammoth task of presenting the main figures of philosophy from the Western tradition, as well as two from China, John J. Loeper devotes a chapter to each of the chosen individuals in turn. With only 115 pages of text, Loeper condenses a remarkable amount of information into Men of Ideas. He is not content merely to present the main ideas of the philosophers, as he also provides their life stories, impressions of the times in which they lived, and clues to their personalities and styles. Each chapter ends with some of the more famous quotes from...
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