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https://youtu.be/ad8nhWCQOg0 The subject of an eponymous Platonic dialogue, Protagoras was a Sophist whom Plato credits as the originator of the role of the professional sophist (one who reasons with complexly…

https://youtu.be/Jia3zIXakt8 Prodicus of Ceos was born about 465 BC in Ioulis on the island of Ceos and was one of the first generation of Sophists. He was noted for teaching…

https://youtu.be/P-j5c1H12Zo Born in Vienna on July 28, 1902, Karl Raimund Popper was one of the great philosophers —and among the most important philosophers of science—of the twentieth century. He was…

https://youtu.be/e_q-foeTq4Q Henri Poincaré has been called the “last polymath.” Although he is most celebrated for his fundamental contributions to mathematics, he was also a theoretical physicist and a philosopher, with…

https://youtu.be/NDq96k_dibc The founder of Neoplatonism, Plotinus developed a metaphysics consisting of three elements: the One, the Intelligence, and the Soul. From these “emanate” all existence, such that intellectual contemplation produces…

https://youtu.be/qbfGstf9tsQ With his teacher, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato is one of the triumvirate of Greek philosophers who are credited not only as seminal in creating the discipline of…

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…