469 BCE — Socrates is born
Socrates is one of the most influential, and also most enigmatic, figures in Western Philosophy. An Athenian who lived at...
December 14, 2022
Bruces’ Philosophers Song
May 26, 428 BCE — Plato is born
Oddly, not the Platonic Ideal of the philosopher (although in fairness, he would have been the first to point that...
December 9, 2022
April 16, 384 BCE — Aristotle is born
The third of the three great Ancient Greek philosophers was the student of Plato (who, in his turn, had been...
December 4, 2022
April 5, 1588 — Thomas Hobbes is born
Best known as the writer of “Leviathan”, Thomas Hobbes was one of the fundamental philosophers in the Western tradition. His...
January 14, 2022
May 7, 1711 — David Hume born
Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, David Hume’s parents were noble but impoverished, and he worked as a merchant’s assistant while seeking...
September 7, 2021
August 27, 1770 — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel is born
Hegel was one of the most influential philosophers of his time. He built upon the work of Kant, Descartes, Hume...
August 4, 2021
March 10, 1772 — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel is born
Schlegel and his brother August were two of the leading members of the Jena Romantics, a group of artists and...
July 24, 2021
February 22, 1788 — Arthur Schopenhauer is born
Arthur Schopenhauer was born in Danzig, in what is now Poland. The child of a wealthy patrician family, Arthur went...
June 24, 2021
October 15, 1844 — Friedrich Nietzsche is born
Of all the great philosophers, none is quite so famous for being, well, a raving loon, as Friedrich Nietzsche. Born...
December 19, 2020
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