The most dramatically influential
philosophers and great thinkers in the
modern history of western philosophy.
If a number of people were asked to nominate their candidates
for a shortlist of the most dramatically influential
philosophers, philosophic writers, and great thinkers, in the
modern history of western philosophy it is more than likely that
the resulting shortlists would contain some names very
consistently and other names less consistently.
Such philosophers as René Descartes and Immanuel Kant
are definitely in the very first rank of great thinkers in terms
of their enduring and pervasive importance in the history of
western philosophy. Their works in many ways have provided a
platform from which later philosophies developed. We take the
view, however, that a number of other philosophers, philosophic
writers, and great thinkers, deserve a place on a shortlist of
the most dramatically influential philosophers, philosophic
writers, and thinkers, in the history of western philosophy,
in preference to even Descartes and Kant, as the works of
these "others" seems to be more immediately related to
dramatic alterations in peoples lives.
It should not be overlooked that some of the people mentioned
on our shortlist of great thinkers were dependent, in part, on
Descartes or Kant for providing elements of the platform upon
which their own works were built!
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