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469 BCE
SOCRATES
He originated from a poor family. His dad was a stone worker and his mom was a maternity specialist. He trusts that the general population ought to ask and make inquiries. He was the first individual to give a down to earth and political concentration to theory and morals. -
428 BCE
PLATO
Ancient Greek philosopher; student of Socrates and a teacher of Aristotle. His writings explored justice, beauty and equality, and also contained discussions in aesthetics, political philosophy, theology, cosmology, epistemology and the philosophy of language. -
384 BCE
ARISTOTLE
A student of Plato and one of the founders of Western philosophy. He spent about twenty years at Plato’s Academy in Athens, first as a student and then as an associate. He tutored the young Alexander of Macedonia, who would become Alexander the Great. -
354 BCE
ST. AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
His teachings had an impact on the growth of Western Christianity and Western philosophy. He was an early North African Christian theologian and philosopher. A revolutionary thinker from the fourth century, St. Augustine combined Neoplatonism with Christian teaching. Augustine found it difficult to reconcile his views on original sin, predestination, and human moral responsibility with his views on free will and moral responsibility. -
334 BCE
ZENO OF CITIUM
He is credited with founding the Stoic school of thought, which he established in Athens at the beginning of the third century BC. Zeno, like the Cynics, acknowledged a single, singular, and simple good, which is the only thing worth striving for and which can only be comprised of Virtue. This philosophy is known as stoicism. He differed from the Cynics, nevertheless, in his belief that things that lack morality can nonetheless be valuable to us. -
IMMANUEL KANT
He is among the most significant thinkers in the development of Western philosophy. Nearly every philosophical movement that came after him has benefited greatly from his contributions to ethics. He created the Kantian ethics, which emerged from the rationalism of the Enlightenment and is founded on the idea that the only thing that is inherently good is a good will; an action can only be good if its maxim, or guiding principle, is obligation to the moral law. -
JOHN STUART MILL
Political economist, philosopher, lawmaker, and public servant John Stuart Mill was from England. He made significant contributions to social philosophy, political theory, and political economics, making him one of the most important philosophers in the history of classical liberalism. -
JOHN RAWLS
He was a liberal-trained American moral and political philosopher. John Rawls' book A Theory of Justice is a work of political philosophy and ethics in which he makes an effort to address the issue of distributive justice (the socially just distribution of goods in a society) by using a modified version of the well-known social contract method.