BIOGRAPHIES

https://youtu.be/rTX8NiGdqBk Born on November 4, 1873, in London, G. E. Moore enrolled in Trinity College, Cambridge to study classics but met Bertrand Russell, then a philosophy student two years ahead…

https://youtu.be/xe-DYgVd5EM Montesquieu was born at Chateau de La Brède, near Bordeaux on January 18, 1689, into a noble family of lawyers. From 1700 to 1705, he attended Oratorian College de…

https://youtu.be/rj_5T2Q2DKk Born on February 28, 1533 at Chateau de Montaigne, near Bordeaux, Michel de Montagne is more widely known as a literary figure, the originator of the prose essay, than…

https://youtu.be/OCHTA6xzskE John Stuart Mill was a prolific Victorian philosopher, who wrote in the fields of logic, epistemology, economics, social and political philosophy, ethics, metaphysics, religion, and current affairs. He was…

https://youtu.be/wuHDMjOjCmA Considered by many the “Second Sage,” after Confucius, his intellectual progenitor, Mencius was a counselor during the Warring States period of Chinese history (475-221 BC) and is best known…

https://youtu.be/FHbselSVT8U The last of the Eleatic philosophers—Pre-Socratics active in Elea (modern Velia, Italy) early in the fifth century BC—Melissus of Samos, along with Zeno and Parmenides, argued that reality is…

https://youtu.be/ov8Czk5YrYM At the funeral of Karl Marx, who died on March 14, 1883, poor and mostly forgotten, his friend and collaborator Friedrich Engels (1820–1895), coauthor of The Communist Manifesto, delivered…

https://youtu.be/sIdrvFZ9ALo Mao Zedong was born on December 26, 1893, in Shaoshan, Hunan, the son of a land-owning and prosperous peasant family. At the local elementary school, he received a classical…

https://youtu.be/j9tU5_zWGFQ Maimonides codified Jewish law, shaped in the Middle Ages a large body of Jewish thought, and was a provocative philosopher, whose views on the relation of reason to revelation…

https://youtu.be/LVQMQkKeEgs Born on May 3, 1469 in Florence, Italy, Machiavelli is most famous for Il Principe (The Prince), which he wrote in 1513 and dedicated to Lorenzo di Piero de’…