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...
Socrates is one of the most influential, and also most enigmatic, figures in Western Philosophy. An Athenian who lived at...
Oddly, not the Platonic Ideal of the philosopher (although in fairness, he would have been the first to point that...
The third of the three great Ancient Greek philosophers was the student of Plato (who, in his turn, had been...
Best known as the writer of “Leviathan”, Thomas Hobbes was one of the fundamental philosophers in the Western tradition. His...
Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, David Hume’s parents were noble but impoverished, and he worked as a merchant’s assistant while seeking...
Hegel was one of the most influential philosophers of his time. He built upon the work of Kant, Descartes, Hume...
Schlegel and his brother August were two of the leading members of the Jena Romantics, a group of artists and...
Arthur Schopenhauer was born in Danzig, in what is now Poland. The child of a wealthy patrician family, Arthur went...
Of all the great philosophers, none is quite so famous for being, well, a raving loon, as Friedrich Nietzsche. Born...