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You think, so you are

Take a peep into the minds of the great philosophers

The purpose of philosophy is to change man's outlook towards life by the way of self-realisation and understanding. Log on to the following sites and read about the most influential philosophers and their works.

Aristotle

www.philosophypages.com/ph/aris.htm Aristotle was the first to divide the subjects in the way that we still do nearly 2,500 years later, as well as the first to treat them systematically and rationally.

Immanuel Kant

www.friesian.com /kant.htm

Kant is an 18th century German philosopher whose work initiated dramatic changes in the fields of epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, aesthetics, and teleology. Like many Enlightenment thinkers, he holds our mental faculty of reason in high esteem.

Plato

www.unixl.com/ dir/humanities/history/ great_minds_of_history /plato/

Plato was known as the "immortal Greek philosopher of antiquity and eternal wisdom". His works, perhaps the most consistently popular and influential philosophic writings ever published, consist of a series of dialogues in which the discussions between Socrates and others are presented with infinite charm.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

www.philosophers .co.uk/cafe/phil_jun2003. htm

One of the most enigmatic thinkers of the 18th century, Jean-Jacques Rousseau's colourful life and consistent defiance of social conventions are reflected in his political writings.

Jean-Paul Sartre

http://members.aol.com/ DonJohnR/Philosophy/ Sartre.html

"Philosophy appears to some people as a homogenous milieu: there thoughts are born and die, there systems are built, and there, in turn, they collapse. Others take Philosophy for a specific attitude.In our view Philosophy does not exist," says Satre.

Socrates

www.archaeonia. com/philosophy/socratics/ socrates.htm

Instead of lecturing his students, he would invite them to consider the question with him. The goal was not for Socrates to teach his students what he thought of the various subjects but rather to teach them to think critically about the subjects for themselves.

Voltaire

www.voltaire.ox. ac.uk/

French writer, satirist, the embodiment of the 18th-century Enlightenment, Voltaire is remembered as a crusader against tyranny and bigotry. You can find complete works of Voltaire on this site and much more.

Ayyappa Nagubandi

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