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Philosophers
37 thinkers from Thales to Camus. Filter by name, school, idea.
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Era · Pre-Socratic
Era · Classical Greek
Era · Hellenistic & Roman
Era · Late Antiquity
Era · Medieval
Era · Renaissance & Reformation
Era · Early Modern
René Descartes
I think, therefore I am.
1596 – 1650
Baruch Spinoza
God, or Nature.
1632 – 1677
John Locke
The mind at birth is a blank slate.
1632 – 1704
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
We live in the best of all possible worlds.
1646 – 1716
David Hume
Reason is the slave of the passions.
1711 – 1776
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
1712 – 1778
Immanuel Kant
Act only on a maxim you could will to be universal law.
1724 – 1804
Era · Nineteenth Century
G.W.F. Hegel
The owl of Minerva flies only at dusk.
1770 – 1831
Arthur Schopenhauer
The world is my representation, and underneath it, blind Will.
1788 – 1860
John Stuart Mill
Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.
1806 – 1873
Søren Kierkegaard
Truth is subjectivity.
1813 – 1855
Karl Marx
Philosophers have only interpreted the world; the point is to change it.
1818 – 1883
Friedrich Nietzsche
God is dead, and we have killed him.
1844 – 1900
Era · Twentieth Century (to mid-century)
Edmund Husserl
To the things themselves.
1859 – 1938
Bertrand Russell
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
1872 – 1970
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
1889 – 1951
Martin Heidegger
Why is there something rather than nothing?
1889 – 1976
Jean-Paul Sartre
Existence precedes essence.
1905 – 1980
Simone de Beauvoir
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
1908 – 1986
Albert Camus
One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
1913 – 1960