The Philosophers at Finnegans Wake
The following are sixty-five (plus one) philosophers present at the Wake. They appear here chronologically by date of birth. Several associates of philosophy are included, such as Darwin, Freud, and Einstein, as they have had significant influence on philosophy. Numbers following the names represent page and line numbers in FW.
Pythagoras (c. 570–c. 495 b.c.) 116.30
Anaxagoras (c. 500–428 b.c.) 155.32–33
Socrates (469–399 b.c.) 88.09; 306.L11
Democritus (c. 460–c. 370 b.c.) 551.31
Plato (427–347 b.c.) 119.03; 164.11; 257.11; 286.03; 292.30; 307.L01; 348.08; 417.15; 622.36
Diogenes (c. 400–c. 325 b.c.) 184.17; 290.21; 307.L05; 411.29; 421.26
Aristotle (384–322 b.c.) 110.17; 306.L05; 417.16
Epicurus (341–271 b.c.) 475.11
Cicero (106–43 b.c.) 152.10; 182.09; 425.19; 577.28
Lucretius (c. 99–55 b.c.) 277n2; 306.L16
Seneca, the Younger (c. 1–65) 612.15
Lucian (c. 115–c. 200) 255.21; 419.36
Marcus Aurelius (121–80) 132.19; 306.L14
Plotinus (204–70) 470.20
Porphyry (233–304) 264n3
Augustine, Saint (354–430) 38.29–30
Pelagius (c.354–c. 425) 182.03; 358.10; 387.05–6; 525.07; 538.36
Eriugena, John Scotus (c. 810–77) 4.36; 279.03; 431.21, 35
Avicenna (980–1037) 488.06–7, 15
Abelard, Peter (1079–1144) 237.34–35; 453.26
Averroës (1126–98) 488.07, 15
Bonaventure, Saint (c. 1221–74) 207.26
Aquinas, Saint Thomas (1225–74) 93.09; 113.36; 145.10; 240.08; 245.12; 296.20; 299.08; 417.08; 510.18; 514.17
Nicholas of Cusa (1401–64) 16.05; 49.34; 85.30; 163.15, 17; 518.23; 622.01
Erasmus, Desiderius (1466–1536) 155.33; 301n5
Machiavelli, Niccolò (1469–1527) 89.06–7; 182.20; 251.26–27
More, Sir Thomas (1478–1535) 534.08, 14
Paracelsus, Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim (1493–1541) 306.01; 484.30–31
Teresa of Ávila, Saint (1515–82) 155.26; 432.29; 491.16
Patrizi, Francesco (1529–97) 78.23
Montaigne, Michel de (1533–92) 225.15
Bruno, Giordano (1548–1600) 7.22; 15.16; 117.12; 125.20; 130.34; 163.15, 24; 246.32; 271.21; 281.15; 287.24; 344.12; 369.08; 424.36; 470.13; 595.18
Bacon, Francis (1561–1626) 382.11; 406.15; 456.22; 603.01–2
Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) 251.25; 583.08
Boehme, Jakob (1575–1624) 244.36
Grotius, Hugo (1583–1645) 415.25
Mersenne, Marin (1588–1648) 609.03
Descartes, René (1596–1650) 88.07–9; 127.25; 269n2; 301.25; 304.27–28,31; 437.08
Pascal, Blaise (1623–62) 128.34; 302.03; 411.31–32; 432.30; 454.22; 594.17
Spinoza, Baruch (1632–77) 150.08; 414.16, 32–33; 611.36
Newton, Sir Isaac (1642–1727) 106.28–29
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm (1646–1716) 416.29
Vico, Giambattista (1668–1744) 3.02; 6.33; 26.31; 29.23; 51.29; 62.06; 81.01; 84.19; 98.19; 117.12; 131.22; 134.16; 179.19; 215.23; 246.25; 255.27; 260.14–15; 277.16; 287.24; 291.18; 330.13; 331.20; 351.01; 375. 33; 417.06; 452.21; 472.20; 473.06; 481. 29; 495.17, 31; 497.13; 506.28; 551.34; 596.06, 20, 29; 614. 27; 622.08
Berkeley, George (1685–1753) 260.11; 312.29; 330.17; 335.13; 338.02–3; 391.31; 423.32; 435.11; 569.07–8; 610.01, 12; 611.02, 4, 5, 27; 612.32, 35
Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet (1694–1778) 118.06; 193.19–23; 509.33
Swedenborg, Emanuel (1699–1772) 552.16
Hume, David (1711–76) 97.24; 261.05; 450.13; 606.16
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712–78) 463.09; 469.11–12; 471.14
Helvétius, Claude-Adrien (1715–71) 4.21
Kant, Immanuel (1724–1804) 64.13–14; 77.22; 109.01; 120.31; 143.06; 286.26; 297.09; 414.22; 416.13; 432.32; 440.17; 611.21
Burke, Edmund (1729–97) 256.11–12; 303.06; 542.19
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (1770–1831) 12.21; 107.36; 416.33; 604.06
Schopenhauer, Arthur (1788–1860) 414.33
Mill, John Stuart (1806–73) 213.02; 414.34; 416.33
Darwin, Charles (1809–82) 252.28; 504.28
Kierkegaard, Søren Aabye (1813–55) 201.31; 232.19; 246.01; 281.26–27; 370.24; 388.02; 534.26; 596.31; 600.20
Marx, Karl (1818–83) 83.10, 15; 365.20
Engels, Friedrich (1820–95) 75.19; 181.01; 233.33; 416.32; 519.01; 604.06
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm (1844–1900) 83.10; 344.14
Freud, Sigmund (1856–1939) 7.13; 34.07; 115.23; 123.20; 172.21; 173.17; 299.02–3; 377.07; 411.35–36; 460.20; 579.20
Bergson, Henri-Louis (1859–1941) 149.20
Unamuno, Miguel de (1864–1936) 61.01
Croce, Benedetto (1866–1952) 511.31
Jung, Carl Gustav (1875–1961) 112.04; 115.22–23; 123.20; 143.13; 170.06, 30; 267.08; 268n3; 318.09; 348.13; 416.09; 460.20; 511.35; 586.11
Einstein, Albert (1879–1955) 100.26, 36; 149.28; 152.18, 19; 153.23–25; 159.04, 5; 247.04; 287.19; 293.14; 305.06; 611.20
Whitehead 311.42
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Source:
Donald Phillip Verene, James Joyce and the Philosophers at Finnegans Wake, pp. 105-107.
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