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Foot, Philippa

https://youtu.be/6L2XE6P5dp0 Philippa Foot was a founder of modern virtue ethics, a theory of normative ethics that focuses on the outcomes of action and is founded in Aristotelian ethics. She devoted…
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December 1, 2023
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Fichte, Johann Gottlieb

https://youtu.be/7J5rPx2t26U The life of Johann Gottlieb Fichte spanned the development of German Idealism between the death of Kant and the emergence of Hegel. He was thus a major figure during…
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December 1, 2023
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Epicurus

https://youtu.be/GejSs3NAHxw A major figure of the Hellenistic period of philosophy (the roughly 300 years following 322 BC, the year of Aristotle’s death), Epicurus was a materialist in metaphysics, an empiricist…
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December 1, 2023
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Epictetus

https://youtu.be/Vq_XSCd20lE Born AD 50 at Hierapolis, Phrygia, Epictetus was a stoic philosopher, who studied in Rome (apparently while in servitude) and subsequently taught in his own school at Nicopolis, Greece.…
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December 1, 2023
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Engels, Friedrich

https://youtu.be/WBHQ9DtmPPU Philosophy is not a field renowned for collaboration, so Friedrich Engels may be the most prominent collaborator in the history of philosophy. He is known primarily for having developed,…
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December 1, 2023
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Empedocles

https://youtu.be/CKhObaioexE Active in the mid-fifth century BC, Empedocles of Acragas was one the most important of the Pre-Socratic philosophers and the last Greek philosopher to write in verse. He is…
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December 1, 2023
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo

https://youtu.be/jVCWG-CFpSM In his native United States, Emerson became more revered as a literary figure—an essayist and poet—than as a philosopher, but his founding role in Transcendentalism drew admiration from the…
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December 1, 2023
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Diogenes of Sinope

https://youtu.be/qaciMLybm3s Born about 412 BC in the Ionian Black Sea colony of Sinope, Diogenes was a founder of Cynic philosophy and by far the most famous of the Cynics—ascetics, who…
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December 1, 2023
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Diderot, Denis

https://youtu.be/H7pYbaA1Gqs Born in Langres, Champagne, on October 5, 1713, Denis Diderot was educated at the local Jesuit college, which granted him a Master of Arts degree in philosophy in 1732.…
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December 1, 2023
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Dharmakirti

https://youtu.be/V2UDnW5htcA Active in the sixth or seventh century, Dharmakirti was born, of the Brahmin caste, in southern India and is central to epistemological thought in Buddhist philosophy. His Pramanavarttika is…
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December 1, 2023