Ethical Philosophers and their perspective Ethical Philosophies

JOHN STUART MILL (1806-1873)

1806 BCE

"One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests." John Stuart Mill was an English philosopher, political economist, Member of Parliament, and civil servant. One of the most influential thinkers in the history of classical liberalism, he contributed widely to social theory, political theory, and political economy. He was prominent as a publicist in the reforming age of the 19th century and remains of lasting interest as a logician and an ethical theorist.

GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL (1770-1831)

1770 BCE

“Too fair to worship, too divine to love.” Hegel was a German philosopher and the most important figure in German idealism.He believed that we do not perceive the world or anything in it directly and that all our minds have access to is ideas of the world—images, perceptions, concepts.

Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)

1724 BCE

"Thoughts without content are empty, intuition without concepts are blind." Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher and one of the foremost thinkers of the Enlightenment. Kant's comprehensive and systematic works have made him one of the most influential figures in modern Western philosophy.

DAVID HUME (1711-1776)

1711 BCE

"A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence." David Hume was a Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, librarian and essayist.Hume is best known today for his highly influential system of philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism. He argued that inductive reasoning and belief in causality cannot be justified rationally; instead, they result from custom and mental habit.

JOHN LOCKE (1632-1704)

1632 BCE

"No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience." John Locke was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism". He is recognized as the founder of British empiricism and the author of the first systematic exposition and defense of political liberalism.

THOMAS HOBBES (1588-1679)

1588 BCE

"Words are the money of fools.” Thomas Hobbes was an English philosopher, scientist and historian,best known for his political philosophy, especially as articulated in his masterpiece Leviathan (1651). He is considered to be one of the founders of modern political philosophy.

THOMAS AQUINAS (1225-1274)

1225 BCE

"Wonder is the desire for knowledge." Thomas Aquinas was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church. Aquinas was the greatest of the Scholastic philosophers. He produced a comprehensive synthesis of Christian theology and Aristotelian philosophy that influenced Roman Catholic doctrine for centuries and was adopted as the official philosophy of the church in 1917.

THALES OF MILETUS (620-546)

620 BCE

"The past is certain, the future obscure." Thales of Miletus was a Greek mathematician, astronomer and pre-Socratic philosopher from Miletus in Ionia, Asia Minor. Historically, he was renowned as one of the legendary Seven Wise Men, or Sophoi, of antiquity.

SOCRATES (469-399)

469 BCE

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." Socrates was a Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as a founder of Western philosophy and the first moral philosopher of the Western ethical tradition of thought. He's best known through Plato's dialogues, which has a great contribution of the field of ethics and education.

ARISTOTLE (384-322)

384 BCE

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom." Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. He was a student of Plato, who was himself a student of Socrates, one of the founders of Western philosophy. Aristotle was considered as one of the most influential philosophers who made a big contribution to logic, mathematics, ethics. etc.