TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mannion, James
TI  - Essential philosophy: everything you need to understand the world's greatest thinkers 
U1  - 190/MAN 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Cincinnati, OH : 
PB  - David and Charles
KW  - Philosophers
KW  - biography
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - introductions
N1  - Includes index; It's Greek to me -- The three sages : Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle -- The decline and fall of the Hellenistic Period -- The Medieval mind -- The Renaissance Period -- Humanism -- The Protestant Reformation -- The scientific revolution -- Approaching modern times -- British empiricism -- The French Enlightenment -- German idealism -- Utilitarianism -- The American transcendentalists -- Phenomenology and Existentialism -- Modern and postmodern philosophers -- Sociology and Anthropology -- Psychology -- Eastern schools of thought [Hinduism -- Buddhism -- Taoism -- Confucianism -- Shinto -- Sufism] -- The big three religions [Judaism -- Christianity -- Islam] -- Objectivism and the right livelihood -- The forgotten philosophers -- Twelve steps to a better life -- Everything old is New Age again -- Philosophy and the couch potato. Appendix A: Glossary of philosophical terms. Appendix B: Who's who in philosophy
ER  -