December 2023

https://youtu.be/OyYVynJte08 Philo of Alexandria was a Hellenized Jew, also known as Judaeus Philo, who used philosophical allegory to harmonize the Torah with Greek philosophy. More specifically, he applied Stoic philosophy…

https://youtu.be/oM9oJKQvHaw Although William James is most commonly associated with the philosophical school known as Pragmatism, its earliest apostle was Charles Sanders Peirce, who was James’s good friend and intellectual influence.…

https://youtu.be/H9enZf19djQ Blaise Pascal was born in Clermont, Auvergne, France on August 19, 1623, the son of a magistrate of an old ennobled family. After Pascal’s mother died, father and son…

https://youtu.be/c9xPfQHa6-M Parmenides of Elea, a Pre-Socratic, was the first philosopher to explore the nature of existence itself, thereby laying claim to the title of the “Father of Metaphysics.” Since he…

https://youtu.be/NoGGaUHgago William of Ockham (William Ockham, William of Occam) was born about 1285, most likely in the small Surrey (England) village of Ockham. He was a Franciscan monk and scholastic…

https://youtu.be/9VdKx76tiGE Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was born on October 15, 1844 in Rocken, Saxony, the son of a Lutheran pastor. He studied classical philology at the universities of Bonn and Leipzig…

https://youtu.be/CIeGumcA22s Best known as a novelist who wrote powerful works on themes of feminism, sexual politics, and morality—including The Bell (1958), A Severed Head (1961), The Red and the Green…

https://youtu.be/rTX8NiGdqBk Born on November 4, 1873, in London, G. E. Moore enrolled in Trinity College, Cambridge to study classics but met Bertrand Russell, then a philosophy student two years ahead…

https://youtu.be/xe-DYgVd5EM Montesquieu was born at Chateau de La Brède, near Bordeaux on January 18, 1689, into a noble family of lawyers. From 1700 to 1705, he attended Oratorian College de…

https://youtu.be/rj_5T2Q2DKk Born on February 28, 1533 at Chateau de Montaigne, near Bordeaux, Michel de Montagne is more widely known as a literary figure, the originator of the prose essay, than…