BIOGRAPHIES

https://youtu.be/uieLMzTeftw Aurelius Augustinus, canonized in 1298 as St. Augustine, was born in Thagaste, Roman Africa (Souk Ahras, Algeria), on November 13, 354. An early theologian instrumental in the evolution of…

https://youtu.be/90WWddaCODE Aristotle is second only to Plato as a towering figure in philosophy and Western civilization. His influence on the course of philosophy from his own time and through the…

https://youtu.be/0Sf9OzhIC6U A writer of great eloquence, Hannah Arendt was one of the seminal political and ethical philosophers of the twentieth century. A German Jew, she was born Johanna Cohn Arendt…

https://youtu.be/-gjT2Rx2G5A Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) was an intellectual very much of his age. Only recently had Aristotle been translated from Greek (read by few theologians) into medieval Latin (read by many…

https://youtu.be/ep28GxlD-_A Known as Antiphon the Sophist and associated with a collection of Sophistic writings, this philosopher was probably active in Athens at the end of the fifth century BC. Nothing…

https://youtu.be/f1_VXmHe8vI Born in Aosta, Italy, in 1033 or 1034, Anselm was a Benedictine monk and theologian who was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1093 until his death on April 21, 1109.…

https://youtu.be/1n1VsycUDDQ Born about 586 BC, presumably in Miletus, Anaximenes was a Pre-Socratic, taught by Anaximander, who had been the student of Thales. It was this trio who made up the…

https://youtu.be/N-b-jDqdM4k Born about 610 BC in the Ionic city of Miletus in what is today Turkey, Anaximander is not only an important Pre-Socratic philosopher but is believed to be the…

https://youtu.be/JC3FLBFg7fI Anaxagoras was born about 510 BC in Clazomenae, Ionia, at the time part of the Persian Empire and today located on what is the west coast of Turkey. He…

https://youtu.be/I0biBJuDTHA Born about 801 in Basra (then a city of the Abbasid Caliphate; now in Iraq), Abu Yusuf Ya‘qub ibn Ishaq Al-Kindi is considered the first Arabic philosopher. He translated…