December 2023

https://youtu.be/WeIL5eORemg Samuel ben Judah ibn Tibbon was born about 1150 in Lunel, in the Languedoc region of what is today France. Best known as a translator of rabbinic literature from…

https://youtu.be/D0RcxqRk28M Born between 1089 and 1092 in Tudela, Spain, Abraham Ibn Ezra claimed Córdoba as his birthplace. Other than these conflicting facts, little is known of Ibn Ezra’s family, although…

https://youtu.be/a9UBKbQIO6s Born in Prossnitz, Moravia (today part of the Czech Republic) on April 8, 1859, Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl is widely considered the father of modern phenomenology, the philosophical effort…

https://youtu.be/nsOitIZ-pjo The Scots philosopher David Hume was among the towering intellects of the eighteenth century and drew both admiration and condemnation—but always great interest—for his relentlessly skeptical approach to the…

https://youtu.be/GzfYY6GaEy4 Product of the seventeenth-century Enlightenment, Thomas Hobbes is justly remembered as the founder of modern political philosophy. In an eloquent and systematic manner, he defined all the principal issues…

https://youtu.be/EwMOxGoG9w4 Although identified primarily as a mathematician who made several fundamental breakthroughs in the field, David Hilbert’s work in proof theory and other aspects of mathematical logic have given him…

https://youtu.be/HD57VEWWup0 A native of Ephesus, a major city on the Ionian coast of Asia Minor, Heraclitus was born about 535 BC. His controlling philosophical tenet was the unity of experience…

https://youtu.be/jUdkCVGeA3o Remarkably little is known of Leucippus, who is generally credited with having founded atomism in Greek philosophy. Except for this historical distinction, there is little evidence to show how…

https://youtu.be/ZsXdUd5xxJU One of the signature minds of the Enlightenment, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz is celebrated as the man who cofounded calculus with Isaac Newton, albeit independently from him. He is also…

https://youtu.be/NLHtI0oucmQ Laozi is not a proper name but an honorific meaning “Old Master.” It is applied to a semi historical, semi-legendary, or perhaps wholly legendary philosopher credited as the founder…