Great Philosophers Article Clips

Posted by Tel Asiado Sep 16, 2009

List of links to great philosophers' brief biographies

Despite centuries of trying to unravel "what is truth?", human beings have never really fully cracked to answer what makes the world go round, or what makes us keep going.

Perhaps, it's this very reason that philosophy is alive and thinkers take great interest, as they are continuously challenged by the eternal puzzle of the 'whys' of things.

This blog provides a list of great philosophers linked to their brief biographies.

• Aristotle (pupil of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great)
• Arnauld, Le Grand Antoine
• Austin, J.L.
• Bacon, Roger
• Benedict de Spinoza
• Bentham, Jeremy
• Berkeley, George
• Boethius
• Bonhoeffer, Dietrich
• Democritus
• Descartes, René
• Dewey, John
• Diogenes
• Epicurus
• Frege Gottlob (also mathematician & logician)
• Freud, Sigmund (and psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, psychologist)
• Hegel, G.W. Friedrich
• Husserl, Edmund
• James, William (also a psychologist)
• Jung, G. Carl (analytical psychologist)
• Kant, Immanuel
• Keynes, John Maynard
• Locke, John
• Lucius Annaeus Seneca (also a dramatist and statesman)
• Lucretius (also a Latin poet)
• Machiavelli, Niccolo
• Malebranche, Nicolas
• Marx, Karl
• Nietzsche, Friedrich
• Parmenides of Elea
• Pascal, Blaise
• Peirce, Charles Sanders
• Philo of Alexandria
• Plato
• Plotinus
• Pythagoras
• Reid, Thomas
• Russell, Bertrand
• Sartre, Jean-Paul
• Schelling, Frederick W.
• Schiller, Friedrich von
• Schlick, Moritz
• Socrates
• St. Thomas Aquinas
• Thales (also a scientist)
• Weber, Max
• Whitehead, Alfred North
• Xenophanes (also a poet and religious thinker)

All articles are brief biographies that aim to provide basic insight into the major ideas of great minds and their overall effect to humankind and the world around us.