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https://youtu.be/sIdrvFZ9ALo Mao Zedong was born on December 26, 1893, in Shaoshan, Hunan, the son of a land-owning and prosperous peasant family. At the local elementary school, he received a classical…

https://youtu.be/j9tU5_zWGFQ Maimonides codified Jewish law, shaped in the Middle Ages a large body of Jewish thought, and was a provocative philosopher, whose views on the relation of reason to revelation…

https://youtu.be/LVQMQkKeEgs Born on May 3, 1469 in Florence, Italy, Machiavelli is most famous for Il Principe (The Prince), which he wrote in 1513 and dedicated to Lorenzo di Piero de’…

https://youtu.be/_1T1MblWr4Y Born Abba Mari ibn Kaspi about 1280 in Arles, Provence, Joseph Kaspi was a rabbinical author who wrote numerous commentaries on the Old Testament. In these, he drew upon…

https://youtu.be/_ikpDMg9g2g Kant brought eighteenth-century Western philosophy to a new height of ambition. He saw his task, as a philosopher, to answer three essential questions: “What can I know? What should…

https://youtu.be/JWa4omwvH8U One of the most original and approachable of philosophers, William James was instrumental in founding and establishing Pragmatism, which embraces language and thought as the means of problem solving…

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…