Philosophy Student

https://youtu.be/PIOyML8OjBY Born on February 4, 1906, in Breslau, one of eight children of psychiatrist and neurologist Karl Bonhoeffer, Dietrich Bonhoeffer earned both an undergraduate degree and the equivalent of a…

https://youtu.be/kPSD773mD6c Boethius is believed to have been born the year after the “barbarian” Odoacer overthrew the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire and proclaimed himself King of Italy. Thus,…

https://youtu.be/T1mmkD_Fqqk Bharthari lived in the fifth century AD and is known through two texts, Satakatraya, a Sanskrit poetic work, and Vakyapadiya, a work of linguistic philosophy concerning Sanskrit grammar. It…

https://youtu.be/7b96wgTrgeM Born on March 12, 1685, in County Kilkenny, Ireland, George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne, formulated a philosophical theory he called “immaterialism” but that is better known today as subjective…

https://youtu.be/vKRGjyDG3sw Henri Bergson sought to free philosophy from mechanistic views of causality and argued for the role of free will in creating new things and ideas in a gloriously unpredictable…

https://youtu.be/yF2L5kzmQMo Few philosophers, save Karl Marx, have had more practical impact on government and social policy than Jeremy Bentham. The core of his social philosophy, what he himself identified as…

https://youtu.be/NizsRn5Ko4Y Professors of literature claim Walter Benjamin as one of their own, a student of literature and a critic. Philosophers see him as a great modern aesthetician but also as…

https://youtu.be/nuA3PWpLHhw Simone de Beauvoir always considered herself a writer. She disdained calling herself a philosopher, although she did take credit for acting the role of “midwife” (her term) to the…

https://youtu.be/ThmpUhacYp4 Roger Bacon was a major medieval commentator on Aristotle and, as a professor at the universities of Paris and Oxford, he taught Aristotle’s works concerning both natural philosophy and…

https://youtu.be/EMSYQrFu7HE Francis Bacon was a giant of natural philosophy and is often called the father of science—or, at least, of scientific methodology. He was also prominent in England’s Jacobean court…