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Philosophers

A list of the philosophers from the Monty Python work "Bruces' Philosophers Song," as well as random philosophers that are related to them.

Match the philosophers with their primary work(s)

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Martin Heidegger (1889-1976)Being and Time, Die Kehre, On the Essence of Truth
Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates, Either/Or, Fear and Trembling, Repetition
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)Being and Nothingness, The Flies, No Exit, Dirty Hands, Critique of Dialectical Reason, The Transcendence of the Ego, The Age of Reason
Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)Novum Organum, Colours of Good and Evil, Meditations Sacrae, In felicem memoriam Elizabethae, The New Atlantis
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)Thoughts on the True Estimation of Vital Forces, Metaphysics of Morals, The Critiques (Pure Reason, Practical Reason, etc.)
John Locke (1632-1704)A Letter Concerning Toleration, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Two Treatises of Government
Charles-Louis Montesquieu (1689-1755)The Causes of an Echo, The Renal Glands, Persian Letters, The Spirit of the Laws
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)Discourse on the Arts and Sciences, "Emile: or, on Education," Reveries of a Solitary Walker, The Social Contract
David Hume (1711-1776)History of England, A Treatise of Human Nature, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, The Natural History of Religion
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)On Vision and Colors, On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, The World as Will and Representation
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)Phenomenology of Spirit, Science of Logic, Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences, Elements of the Philosophy of Right
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)Philosophical Investigations, On Certainty, Culture and Value
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel (1772-1829)The History of the Poetry of the Greeks and Romans, Alarcos, On the Language and Wisdom of India
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)The Birth of Tragedy, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, The Gay Science, The Case of Wagner, Beyond Good and Evil
Socrates (469-399 BC)Did not actually write anything; his ideas are espoused when he appears as a character in many of Plato's dialogues
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)On Liberty, The Contest in America, A System of Logic, The Subjection of Women, Utilitarianism
Plato (428-348 BC)Phaedo, Sophist, Alcibiades, Meno, Apology, Republic
Aristotle (384-322 BC)On Colors, The Constitution of Athens, Physics, Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)De Corpore (On the Body), De Homine (On Man), De Cive (On the Citizen), Leviathan
Rene Descartes (1596-1650)Passions of the Soul, Discourse on the Method, Le Monde (the World), L'Homme (Man), Meditations


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