Jean-Jacques Rousseau (born June 28, 1712, Geneva, Switzerland – died July 2, 1778, Ermenonville, France) was a Swiss-born philosopher, writer, political theorist, and composer....
Read MoreLudwig Wittgenstein, in full Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein, (born April 26, 1889, Vienna, Austria-Hungary – died April 29, 1951, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England) was an...
Read MoreBaruch Spinoza (born November 24, 1632, Amsterdam, Dutch Republic – died February 21, 1677, The Hague, Dutch Republic) was a Dutch philosopher and one...
Read MoreJohn Locke (born August 29, 1632, Wrington, Somerset, England – died October 28, 1704, High Laver, Essex, England) was an English philosopher, physician, political...
Read MoreNiccolò Machiavelli (born May 3, 1469, Florence, Italy – died June 21, 1527, Florence, Italy) was an Italian diplomat, philosopher, writer, and an important...
Read MoreErich Fromm (born March 23, 1900, Frankfurt am Main, Germany – died March 18, 1980, Muralto, Switzerland) was a German-born psychoanalyst and social philosopher,...
Read MoreSimone de Beauvoir, in full Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir, (born January 9, 1908, Paris, France – died April 14, 1986, Paris,...
Read MoreJean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (born June 21, 1905, Paris, France – died April 15, 1980, Paris), known as Jean-Paul Sartre, was a French philosopher,...
Read MoreImmanuel Kant (born April 22, 1724, Königsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia) – died February 12, 1804, Königsberg) was a German philosopher and one of...
Read MoreAlbert Camus (born November 7, 1913, Mondovi, Algeria – died January 4, 1960, Villeblevin, France) was a French author, philosopher, journalist, and a representative...
Read MoreGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (born August 27, 1770, Stuttgart, Württemberg (now Germany) – died November 14, 1831, Berlin) was a German philosopher and one...
Read MoreHenry David Thoreau (born July 12, 1817, Concord, Massachusetts, U.S. – died May 6, 1862, Concord, Massachusetts, U.S.) was an American author, poet, essayist,...
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