BIOGRAPHIES

As a historical and cultural presence, no philosopher is more important than Socrates. Sufficient sources exist, especially Plato, to give us confidence that there was, in fact, a Greek philosopher…

https://youtu.be/Hy7GWQZm9JE Although economists claim him as their own, Adam Smith was an important social and moral philosopher, the author of The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), which articulated the methodological,…

https://youtu.be/ox6itCQPVXM Lucius Annaeus Seneca was born about 4 BC in Cordoba, Hispania (modern Spain) and was a dramatist as well as a Roman Stoic philosopher. The son of a rhetorician,…

https://youtu.be/phN6pZ4B18A Born in Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland) on January 22, 1788, Arthur Schopenhauer is most famous for The World as Will and Representation (1818; expanded in 1844), a major phenomenological…

https://youtu.be/YooToYxl6kA Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher was a theologian and philosopher who struggled to reconcile Protestantism with Enlightenment thought and effectively founded the modern field of hermeneutics, shifting away from traditional…

https://youtu.be/YzAIoyEzsHU Ferdinand de Saussure was a Swiss linguist, semiotician, and philosopher of language. He was a founding father of twentieth-century linguistics and may be considered, with Charles Sanders Peirce, a…

https://youtu.be/8gI4k1E91is Jean-Paul Sartre achieved rare fame for a philosopher. Indeed, to many, he was and remains the archetypal—or perhaps stereotypical—philosopher of the twentieth century. His fame rests on Existentialism and…

https://youtu.be/Mf95E2XVxc4 Born in Madrid, Spain, on December 16, 1863, George Santayana was a philosopher, poet, and literary and cultural critic. In 1872, his family brought him to the United States…

https://youtu.be/QkSZo54PTlk Born in Fayyûm (upper Egypt) in 882, Saadya was the first major rabbinical writer to work in Arabic and is the father of Judeo-Arabic literature. He was a Hebrew…

https://youtu.be/axC6_Ay8XV4 Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, was among the most famous and most quoted intellectuals of the twentieth century. Earning distinction in the fields of mathematics, logic, history,…