BIOGRAPHIES

https://youtu.be/e_q-foeTq4Q Henri Poincaré has been called the “last polymath.” Although he is most celebrated for his fundamental contributions to mathematics, he was also a theoretical physicist and a philosopher, with…

https://youtu.be/NDq96k_dibc The founder of Neoplatonism, Plotinus developed a metaphysics consisting of three elements: the One, the Intelligence, and the Soul. From these “emanate” all existence, such that intellectual contemplation produces…

https://youtu.be/qbfGstf9tsQ With his teacher, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato is one of the triumvirate of Greek philosophers who are credited not only as seminal in creating the discipline of…

https://youtu.be/OyYVynJte08 Philo of Alexandria was a Hellenized Jew, also known as Judaeus Philo, who used philosophical allegory to harmonize the Torah with Greek philosophy. More specifically, he applied Stoic philosophy…

https://youtu.be/oM9oJKQvHaw Although William James is most commonly associated with the philosophical school known as Pragmatism, its earliest apostle was Charles Sanders Peirce, who was James’s good friend and intellectual influence.…

https://youtu.be/H9enZf19djQ Blaise Pascal was born in Clermont, Auvergne, France on August 19, 1623, the son of a magistrate of an old ennobled family. After Pascal’s mother died, father and son…

https://youtu.be/c9xPfQHa6-M Parmenides of Elea, a Pre-Socratic, was the first philosopher to explore the nature of existence itself, thereby laying claim to the title of the “Father of Metaphysics.” Since he…

https://youtu.be/NoGGaUHgago William of Ockham (William Ockham, William of Occam) was born about 1285, most likely in the small Surrey (England) village of Ockham. He was a Franciscan monk and scholastic…

https://youtu.be/9VdKx76tiGE Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was born on October 15, 1844 in Rocken, Saxony, the son of a Lutheran pastor. He studied classical philology at the universities of Bonn and Leipzig…

https://youtu.be/CIeGumcA22s Best known as a novelist who wrote powerful works on themes of feminism, sexual politics, and morality—including The Bell (1958), A Severed Head (1961), The Red and the Green…