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Schopenhauer, Arthur

https://youtu.be/phN6pZ4B18A Born in Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland) on January 22, 1788, Arthur Schopenhauer is most famous for The World as Will and Representation (1818; expanded in 1844), a major phenomenological…
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December 3, 2023
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Schleiermacher, Friedrich

https://youtu.be/YooToYxl6kA Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher was a theologian and philosopher who struggled to reconcile Protestantism with Enlightenment thought and effectively founded the modern field of hermeneutics, shifting away from traditional…
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December 3, 2023
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Saussure, Ferdinand de

https://youtu.be/YzAIoyEzsHU Ferdinand de Saussure was a Swiss linguist, semiotician, and philosopher of language. He was a founding father of twentieth-century linguistics and may be considered, with Charles Sanders Peirce, a…
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December 3, 2023
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Sartre, Jean-Paul

https://youtu.be/8gI4k1E91is Jean-Paul Sartre achieved rare fame for a philosopher. Indeed, to many, he was and remains the archetypal—or perhaps stereotypical—philosopher of the twentieth century. His fame rests on Existentialism and…
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December 3, 2023
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Santayana, George

https://youtu.be/Mf95E2XVxc4 Born in Madrid, Spain, on December 16, 1863, George Santayana was a philosopher, poet, and literary and cultural critic. In 1872, his family brought him to the United States…
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December 3, 2023
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Saadya (Saadya Gaon)

https://youtu.be/QkSZo54PTlk Born in Fayyûm (upper Egypt) in 882, Saadya was the first major rabbinical writer to work in Arabic and is the father of Judeo-Arabic literature. He was a Hebrew…
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December 3, 2023
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Russell, Bertrand

https://youtu.be/axC6_Ay8XV4 Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, was among the most famous and most quoted intellectuals of the twentieth century. Earning distinction in the fields of mathematics, logic, history,…
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December 3, 2023
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Royce, Josiah

https://youtu.be/wVCIZmWZJIc Josiah Royce was the principal philosopher of absolute idealism, a philosophy associated in Europe with the German G. W. F. Hegel and the British philosopher F. H. Bradley. Royce’s…
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December 3, 2023
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Rousseau, Jean Jacques

https://youtu.be/9D9F7z5Te8I Jean Jacques Rousseau was born on June 28, 1712, in Geneva, Switzerland, the son of a watchmaker. His mother died shortly after his birth, and young Rousseau served two…
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December 3, 2023
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Quine, Willard Van Orman

https://youtu.be/sbc7osOlJ3A Considered among the most influential of twentieth-century philosophers, Willard Van Orman Quine was a logician and analytic philosopher, who argued against logical empiricism, or logical positivism, the notion that…
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December 3, 2023