Category: Biography

Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher and theologian, the founder of existentialism. He wrote on topics of organized religion, Christianity, morals, ethics, psychology and philosophy of religion in a language full of metaphors, irony and hyperbole. He did not want to be famous so mostly wrote under pseudonyms. His writings brought attention only in…

About Author Tim O’Brien is an American writer who writes about the US war in Vietnam and its influence on soldiers. Tim O’Brien was born in Austin, Minnesota, on October 1, 1946. When Tim was twelve years old, the family moved to Worthington. Impressions of this city had a great influence on O’Brien’s imagination and…

About Author Voltaire is known for his philosophy of freedom at the time of Enlightenment and pluralistic thinking. Being a strong adversary of official Catholicism, he’d advocate for human rights and encourage people to open their minds to the wind of political, philosophical, and social changes. Besides this, the enlightener’s wit and insightful vision of…

About Author Arthur Charles Clarke (December 16, 1917 – March 19, 2008) is the distinguished English science fiction writer, inventor, and humanist. Throughout his lifetime he created more than 70 works including non-fiction scientific books. Joined by Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein, Clarke is the member of the group of writers who brought science fiction…

Diogenes of Sinope was a Greek philosopher. Being the founder of Cynic school of philosophy, he was probably the most outstanding representative of it. He was a rather controversial and notorious personality, although highly esteemed for his teaching and unique sense of humor. None of his writings survived, but his impact on the mankind can…

About Author Till nowadays Arthur Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) occupies a rightful place in the American Theatre Hall of Fame. The author of many outstanding plays – All My Sons, The Crucible, and Death of a Salesman – has played a significant role in the development of American theatrical tradition. The…

About Author George Orwell (named Eric Arthur Blair at birth), is a British writer, author of numerous essays, journalistic articles and one of the most controversial people of his time. He is the man who revolted against the society, the one he wanted to be part of so badly. He wrote about himself that he…

Ralph Waldo Emerson is an American philosopher, one of the greatest thinkers in the United States, a writer, poet, essayist, leader of the movement of transcendentalism, the first who formulated his system of ideas. Emerson was born in 1803 in Boston, Massachusetts in a family of a Unitarian minister. Ralph Waldo intended to follow his…

About Author Bernard Shaw is an English playwright and an Irishman by descent. He is considered one of the founders of the “drama of ideas”, writer, essayist, one of the reformers of theatrical art of the XX century. He is the second one in popularity rating (after Shakespeare), the author of plays in the English…

John Locke biography John Locke was an English philosopher, representative of empiricism and liberalism. He contributed to the spread of sensualism. His ideas had a tremendous influence on the development of epistemology and political philosophy. He is widely recognized as one of the most influential thinkers of the Enlightenment and theorists of liberalism. His influence…