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620 BCE
THALES OF MILETUS
“The past is clear, but the future remains a mystery.” Thales of Miletus was a pre-Socratic and Ancient Greek philosopher who influenced many people. He is most known for his cosmology, which depicted the Earth as a flat disk floating in a huge sea, with water as the essence of all matter. Thales' ideas were innovative and daring, and by liberating phenomena from divine interference, he laid the ground for scientific inquiry. -
469 BCE
SOCRATES
A life that hasn't been analyzed isn't worth living." Socrates was a Greek philosopher from Athens who is often regarded as the father of Western philosophy. Plato's dialogues, which have made a significant contribution to the disciplines of ethics and education, are his most famous works. He thought that virtue could be discovered, even if he didn't claim to know it himself, and that individuals who conduct badly do so only because they are unaware of or misunderstand the true nature of virtue. -
428 BCE
PLATO
The Greek philosopher Plato founded the Athenaeum, believed to be the first university in the Western world. Human happiness is at the heart of Plato's philosophy of virtue and fulfillment. A person who is knowledgeable in Plato's view utilizes their intellect to comprehend moral truth and then applies it to their daily lives. "If someone is making progress, no matter how slow, don't let them down". -
384 BCE
ARISTOTLE
Legal reasoning, devoid of emotional attachment, characterizes law. Aristotle was regarded one of the most prominent philosophers of all time. He had a major impact on logic and mathematics as well as on ethics. Virtues are healthy habits we adopt to manage our emotions, according to Aristotle Unlike Plato, he did not believe virtues to be a matter of easy knowledge in his philosophical system. His explanation was that it should be done in line with nature and in a manner that is reasonable. -
THOMAS HOBBES
“Words are the money of fools.” Hobbes is best known for his political thought, and deservedly so. His main concern is the problem of social and political order: how human beings can live together in peace and avoid the danger and fear of civil conflict. From a positivist view, laws are valid not because they are created in natural law, but because they are enacted by legal authority and are accepted by society as such. -
IMMANUEL KANT
“Science is organized knowledge.” Wisdom is a well-organized life.” Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher a. He contends that human knowledge is the source of the general rules of nature that shape all of our experience, and that human reason provides itself the moral law, which serves as the foundation for our belief in God, freedom, and immortality. Kant's extensive and methodical works established him as one of the most important thinkers in contemporary Western philosophy. -
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL
“Too fair to worship, too divine to love.” Hegel was a German philosopher and the most important figure in German idealism. Essentially, Hegel sees human societies evolving in the same way that an argument might evolve. Additionally, 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. -
JEAN-FRANÇOIS LYOTARD
“Scientific knowledge is a type of dialogue.” Jean-François Lyotard was a French philosopher whose best-known work, much to his dismay, was The Postmodern Condition, published in 1979. Lyotard claimed in his early work on phenomenology, Discourse, Figure, Libidinal Economy, and The Postmodern Condition, that events always occur in the face of what is not presentable to phenomenology, discourse, language game, or phrase regimen.