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The ancient Greeks; the gods and Greek thought; ancient Greek civilisation; Greek doubters; key thinkers - Socrates, Plato, Aristotle; the stoics; Eastern thought; religion and philosophy; buddhism; hinduism; shintoism; key thinkers - Buddha, Lao Tze (Taoist), Confucious (Chinese); The christian philosophers; the role of the church and influence of the Greeks; christianity - from dark to medieval ages; dominance of catholicism and Inquisition; key thinkers - St Augustine, St Benedict, John du Scot, St Thomas Aquinas, the Franciscans; The renaissance; Italian art and culture; the renaissance and science; key thinkers - Machiavelli, Erasmus, Calvin and the Reformation Bacon, Hobbes, Bishop Berkeley; The enlightment; the changing world; industrialisation, democracy and science; key thinkers - Descartes, Spinoza, Locke (English revolution), Paine, Burke, Voltaire, Hume, Kant, Adam Smith, Marx; Counter enlightment; the romantics; existentialism; key thinkers - Rosseau, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Neitzche, Prudhoun, Heidegger, Sartre, De Beauviour; Science and utility; the Vienna School; the Fabians and the LSE; key thinkers - Bentham, Russell, Popper, Dewe.