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This book presents a brief bio and a summary of important ideas & events in the lives of 23 great philosophers from ancient times through the 19th century. The book focuses on freethinkers, who are known to say things which upset those in power, Several of these men paid for their beliefs with their lives; many others were persecuted and imprisoned for saying what they believed. (Summary by Ted Delorme)
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
Editor's Preface
03:05 - Chapter 2
Thomas Hobbes
36:34 - Chapter 3
Lord Bolingbroke
32:57 - Chapter 4
Condorcet
33:30 - Chapter 5
Spinoza
35:37 - Chapter 6
Anthony Collins
33:38 - Chapter 7
Descartes
30:30 - Chapter 8
Voltaire
35:40 - Chapter 9
John Toland
34:34 - Chapter 10
Compte De Volney
39:22 - Chapter 11
Charles Blount
40:45 - Chapter 12
Percy Bysshe Shelley
28:50 - Chapter 13
Claud Arian Helvetius
39:38 - Chapter 14
Frances W. D'Arusmont
38:16 - Chapter 15
Epicurus
38:34 - Chapter 16
Zeno the Stoic
38:57 - Chapter 17
Matthew Tindal
37:34 - Chapter 18
David Hume
37:53 - Chapter 19
Dr. Thomas Burnet
37:17 - Chapter 20
Thomas Paine
34:43 - Chapter 21
Baptiste De Mirabaud
05:04 - Chapter 22
Baron D'Holbach
34:22 - Chapter 23
Robert Taylor
40:20 - Chapter 24
Joseph Barker
46:37