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Ancient Greek/Roman Philosophers

Church Thinkers
Enlightenment Thinkers
Kant
● 1724 to 1804
● Ideas
○ Ding an sich - thing in itself (noumenon - something that can exist without being
sensed)

19th century
Schopenhauer
● World as Will and Representation
○ grew out of The Fourfold Root of Sufficient Reason
○ indian philosophers are right
○ transcendental idealism is reason to reject atheism
○ self-denial and asceticism are the way to go
○ artistic contemplation is way out of suffering
○ minor clues
■ ladder metaphor with art and poetry on top
■ translated by viscount haldane

Marx
● Poverty of Philosophy
○ critique of Proudhon’s philosophy
○ dislikes Proudhon’s speculative philosophy, leading to use value of labor that
contradicts iron law of wages
○ proles look for science and only find poverty of philosophy, leading to revolution
self reliance - emerson wow

Early 20th Century Thinkers

Walter Benjamin
● Frankfurt school
● Works collected in “Illuminations”
○ Unpacking my library
○ forward by Hannah Arendt
○ No Karl Kraus
● Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction - exhibition > cult value

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