BIOGRAPHIES

https://youtu.be/8N8gLsHb3HU A controversial figure in the history of Jewish philosophy, Gersonides is best known for his Milhamot Ha-Shem (The Wars of the Lord), written in 1329, which likely exerted an…

https://youtu.be/INlypB330ug Gottlob Frege was a mathematician, logician, and philosopher who may be deemed the father of modern logic and analytic philosophy. More than any other figure of the late nineteenth…

https://youtu.be/jLxTywVOoeE Educated primarily as a philosopher, Michel Foucault produced work so broadly trans disciplinary that perhaps its most controversial aspect is the debate over whether it even is philosophy. He…

https://youtu.be/6L2XE6P5dp0 Philippa Foot was a founder of modern virtue ethics, a theory of normative ethics that focuses on the outcomes of action and is founded in Aristotelian ethics. She devoted…

https://youtu.be/7J5rPx2t26U The life of Johann Gottlieb Fichte spanned the development of German Idealism between the death of Kant and the emergence of Hegel. He was thus a major figure during…

https://youtu.be/GejSs3NAHxw A major figure of the Hellenistic period of philosophy (the roughly 300 years following 322 BC, the year of Aristotle’s death), Epicurus was a materialist in metaphysics, an empiricist…

https://youtu.be/Vq_XSCd20lE Born AD 50 at Hierapolis, Phrygia, Epictetus was a stoic philosopher, who studied in Rome (apparently while in servitude) and subsequently taught in his own school at Nicopolis, Greece.…

https://youtu.be/WBHQ9DtmPPU Philosophy is not a field renowned for collaboration, so Friedrich Engels may be the most prominent collaborator in the history of philosophy. He is known primarily for having developed,…

https://youtu.be/CKhObaioexE Active in the mid-fifth century BC, Empedocles of Acragas was one the most important of the Pre-Socratic philosophers and the last Greek philosopher to write in verse. He is…

https://youtu.be/jVCWG-CFpSM In his native United States, Emerson became more revered as a literary figure—an essayist and poet—than as a philosopher, but his founding role in Transcendentalism drew admiration from the…