The Philosophers

Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás (1863 -...

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 17:48:00 -0500

Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás (1863 - 1952)

The Life of Reason: Or, The Phases of Human Progress (1905 - 1906)
Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe (1910)
Egotism in German Philosophy (1915)
Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922)
Platonism and the Spiritual Life (1927)

"I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should..."

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 12:08:00 -0500

“I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.”

- George Santayana,Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies

Ernst Mach (1838 - 1916) The Science of Mechanics (1893) Analyse...

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 11:56:00 -0500

Ernst Mach (1838 - 1916)

The Science of Mechanics (1893)
Analyse der Empfindungen (The Analysis of Sensations) (1897)
The Principles of Physical Optics (1926)

"To us investigators, the concept ‘soul’ is irrelevant and a matter for laughter. But..."

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 11:55:46 -0500

“To us investigators, the concept ‘soul’ is irrelevant and a matter for laughter. But matter is an abstraction of exactly the same kind, just as good and just as bad as it is. We know as much about the soul as we do of matter.”

- Ernst Mach, History and Root of the Principle of the Conservation of Energy

Rudolf Carnap (1891 – 1970) Der Logische Aufbau der Welt (The...

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 11:26:00 -0500

Rudolf Carnap (1891 – 1970)

Der Logische Aufbau der Welt (The Logical Structure of the World; Pseudoproblems in Philosophy) (1928)
Logische Syntax der Sprache (The Logical Syntax of Language) (1934)
Einführung in die Symbolische Logik (Introduction to Symbolic Logic and its Applications) (1958)

"It is not our business to set up prohibitions, but to arrive at conventions… In logic there are no..."

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 11:22:00 -0500

““It is not our business to set up prohibitions, but to arrive at conventions… In logic there are no morals. Everyone is at liberty to build up his own logic, i.e. his own language, as he wishes. All that is required of him is that, if he wishes to discuss it, he must state his methods clearly, and give syntactical rules instead of philosophical arguments.””

- Rudolf Carnap, The Logical Syntax of Language

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (1775 – 1854) Erster...

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:47:00 -0400

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (1775 – 1854)

Erster Entwurf eines Systems der Naturphilosophie (First Plan of a System of the Philosophy of Nature) (1799)
System des transcendentalen Idealismus (System of Transcendental Idealism) (1800)
System der gesammten Philosophie und der Naturphilosophie insbesondere (System of the Whole of Philosophy and the Philosophy of Nature in Particular) (1804)
Philosophische Untersuchungen über das Wesen der menschlichen Freiheit und die damit zusammenhängenden Gegenstände (Philosophical Inquiries into the Nature of Human Freedom) (1809)
Über die Nature der Philosophie als Wissenschaft (On the Nature of Philosophy as a Science) (1821)

"Only he who has tasted freedom can feel the desire to make over everything in its image, to spread..."

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:39:51 -0400

“Only he who has tasted freedom can feel the desire to make over everything in its image, to spread it throughout the whole universe”

- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Philosophical Inquiries into the Nature of Human Freedom

“The foundation of Fichte’s system is intellectual...

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:26:00 -0400

“The foundation of Fichte’s system is intellectual intuition, pure thinking of itself, pure consciousness, Ego = Ego, I am.” - Hegel, The Difference Between Fichte’s and Schelling’s System of Philosophy

Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762 – 1814)

Versuch einer Kritik aller Offenbarung (An Attempt at a Critique of All Revelation) (1792)
Grundlage der gesamten Wissenschaftslehre (Foundations of the Entire Science of Knowledge) (1794)
Grundlage des Naturrechts (Foundations of Natural Right) (1797)
Wissenschaftslehre (Foundations of Transcendental Philosophy) (1798)
Die Bestimmung des Menschen (The Vocation of Man) (1800)

"What sort of philosophy one chooses depends on what sort of man one is; for a philosophical system..."

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:09:00 -0400

“What sort of philosophy one chooses depends on what sort of man one is; for a philosophical system is not a dead piece of furniture which we can accept as we wish; it is rather a thing animated by the soul of a person who holds it.”

- Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Foundations of Transcendental Philosophy

“I will only mention that I am indebted to Frege’s...

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 17:04:00 -0400

“I will only mention that I am indebted to Frege’s great works…” Ludwig Wittgenstein, Preface, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (1848 – 1925)

Die Grundlagen der Arithmetik: eine logisch-mathematische Untersuchung über den Begriff der Zahl (The Foundations of Arithmetic: A logico-mathematical enquiry into the concept of number) (1884)
Grundgesetze der Arithmetik (The Basic Laws of Arithmetic) (1893)

"Sometimes I seem to see a difficulty, but then again I don’t see it."

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 16:52:00 -0400

“Sometimes I seem to see a difficulty, but then again I don’t see it.”

- Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege, Wittgenstein: A Life: Young Ludwig (1889-1921)

Ernest Renan (1823 – 1892) Vie de Jésus (The Life of Jesus)...

Sat, 11 Sep 2010 17:11:37 -0400

Ernest Renan (1823 – 1892)

Vie de Jésus (The Life of Jesus) (1863)
L’Antéchrist (The Antichrist) (1873)
Caliban (1878)
Souvenirs d’enfance et de jeunesse (Recollections of My Youth) (1883)

"As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass..."

Sat, 11 Sep 2010 16:53:00 -0400

“As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost.”

- Ernest Renan, Caliban: A Philosophical Drama Continuing “The Tempest” of William Shakespeare

Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (1864 – 1936) Del sentimiento trágico...

Sat, 11 Sep 2010 12:37:00 -0400

Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (1864 – 1936)

Del sentimiento trágico de la vida en los hombres y en los pueblos (The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Peoples) (1913)
Niebla (Mist) (1914)
San Manuel Bueno, Mártir (Saint Manuel the Good, Martyr) (1930)

"It has often been said that every man who has suffered misfortunes prefers to be himself, even with..."

Sat, 11 Sep 2010 12:18:00 -0400

“It has often been said that every man who has suffered misfortunes prefers to be himself, even with his misfortunes, rather than to be someone else without them.”

- Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo, The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Peoples

“M. Comte, in particular, whose social system, as unfolded...

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:59:00 -0400

“M. Comte, in particular, whose social system, as unfolded in his Systeme de Politique Positive, aims at establishing (though by moral more than by legal appliances) a despotism of society over the individual, surpassing anything contemplated in the political ideal of the most rigid disciplinarian among the ancient philosophers.” - John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

Isidore Auguste Marie François Xavier Comte (1798 - 1857)

Cours de philosophie positive (The Positive Philosophy) (1830-1842)
Discours sur l’Esprit positif (A Discourse on the Positive Spirit) (1844)
Discours sur l’ensemble du positivisme (General View of Positivism) (1848)
Système de politique positive, ou traité de sociologie instituant la religion de l’Humanité (System of Positive Polity) (1851-1854)

"History has now been for the first time systematically considered, and has been found, like other..."

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:51:00 -0400

“History has now been for the first time systematically considered, and has been found, like other phenomena, subject to invariable laws.”

- Auguste Comte, System of Positive Polity

Jeremy Bentham (1748 - 1832) Defence of Usury (1787) An...

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:36:27 -0400

Jeremy Bentham (1748 - 1832)

Defence of Usury (1787)
An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (1789)
The Influence of Natural Religion upon the Temporal Happiness of Mankind (1822)
Anarchical Fallacies: Being an Examination of the Declarations of Rights Issued During the French Revolution (1843)

"That which has no existence cannot be destroyed — that which cannot be destroyed cannot require..."

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:04:00 -0400

“That which has no existence cannot be destroyed — that which cannot be destroyed cannot require anything to preserve it from destruction. Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense — nonsense upon stilts.”

- Jeremy Bentham, Anarchical Fallacies