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470 BCE
Socrates
was a classical Greek (Athenian) philosopher held to be the founder of Western Philosophy. He is best known for his association with the Socratic Method of question and answer, his claim that he was ignorant (or aware of his own absence of knowledge), and his claim that the unexamined life is not worth living, for human being. -
427 BCE
Plato
was a philosopher in classical Greece and founder of the Academy in Athens which considered as the first university in the western world. He is known as the author of philosophical work of unparalleled influence. -
384 BCE
Aristotle
was an ancient Greek philosopher and scientist. He is considered as the "Father of Western Philosophy". The Nicomachean Ethics is the Aristotle's best-known work on ethics which lay out his thoughts on various moral virtues and their respective details. -
354 BCE
Augustine
was Roman African, early theologian and philosopher from Numidia. He is famous for being an inimitable Catholic theologian and for his agnostic contribution to western philosophy. He argues that skeptics have no basis for claiming to know that there is no knowledge. -
1225
Thomas Aquinas
was Italian-Dominican priest, Scriptural Theologian, philosopher and Doctor of the Church. He is famous for his so-called five ways of attempting to demonstrate the existence of God. These five short arguments constitute only an introduction to a rigorous project in natural theology- theology that is properly philosophical and so does not make use of appeals to religious authority-that runs through thousands of tightly argued pages. -
1561
Francis Bacon
was an English philosopher and statesman who seved as Attorney General, Lord Chancellor of England and a pioneer of modern scientific thought. He claimed that all knowledge as his province and, after a magisterial survey, urgently advocated new ways by which man might establish a legitimate command over nature for the relief of his estate. -
René Descartes
was a French philosopher, mathematician and scientist who credited with being the "Father of Modern Philosophy". He formulated the first modern version of mind-body dualism, from which stems the mind-body problem. He also promoted the development of a new science grounded in observation and experiment. -
John Locke
was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers. He is known as the "Father of Liberalism". He worked on modern philosophical empiricism and political liberalism. -
Immanuel Kant
was a German philosopher whose comprehensive and systematic work in epistemology, ethics and aesthetics greatly influenced all the various schools of Kantianism and idealism. Kant believed that reason is the source of morality, and the aesthetics arise from a faculty of disinterested judgement. -
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
was a German philosopher and an important figure of German idealism. He developed a dialectical scheme that emphasized the progress of history and of ideas from thesis to antithesis and then to a synthesis. -
Charles Darwin
was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist whom contributed to the science 9f evolution with the idea that human shared a common ancestor with apes. -
John Dewey
was an American philosopher and educator who was a pioneer in functional psychology, leaders of the progressive movement in education in the United States and founder of the philosophical movement known as pragmatism- a view that rejected ymthe dualistic epistemology and metaphysics of modern philosophy in favor of a naturalistic approach that viewed knowledge as arising from an active adaptation of human organism to its environment.
