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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…

https://youtu.be/OCHTA6xzskE John Stuart Mill was a prolific Victorian philosopher, who wrote in the fields of logic, epistemology, economics, social and political philosophy, ethics, metaphysics, religion, and current affairs. He was…

https://youtu.be/wuHDMjOjCmA Considered by many the “Second Sage,” after Confucius, his intellectual progenitor, Mencius was a counselor during the Warring States period of Chinese history (475-221 BC) and is best known…

https://youtu.be/FHbselSVT8U The last of the Eleatic philosophers—Pre-Socratics active in Elea (modern Velia, Italy) early in the fifth century BC—Melissus of Samos, along with Zeno and Parmenides, argued that reality is…

https://youtu.be/ov8Czk5YrYM At the funeral of Karl Marx, who died on March 14, 1883, poor and mostly forgotten, his friend and collaborator Friedrich Engels (1820–1895), coauthor of The Communist Manifesto, delivered…