Category: PhilosopherS

Karl Marx was born on May 5, 1818, in Trier, a small city in Germany. His father was a lawyer and a Jew who converted […]

Martin Heidegger was born in a small town in Germany called Messkirch, on September 26, 1889. He grew up in a family of seven children […]

Ludwig Wittgenstein was born on April 26, 1889, in Vienna, Austria. His father was a wealthy industrialist, and his mother came from a wealthy Jewish […]

Friedrich Nietzsche was born on October 15, 1844, in Röcken, a small town in Germany. Nietzsche was the son of a Lutheran minister and grew […]

Socrates was a Greek philosopher born in Athens around 469 BCE. He was the son of a sculptor and a midwife. Socrates was a member […]

John Locke was an English philosopher who is considered one of the founders of modern liberalism. He was born on August 29, 1632 in Wrington, […]

Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher who lived from 1724-1804. He is considered one of the most important figures in the history of western philosophy […]

René Descartes was a French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist who lived from 1596-1650. He is considered the father of modern western philosophy and is known […]

Aristotle was a Greek philosopher who lived from 384-322 BCE. He was a student of Plato and later became the teacher of Alexander the Great. […]

Plato was a Greek philosopher who lived from 427-347 BCE. He was a student of Socrates and later became the teacher of Aristotle. Plato was […]