Category: Biography

Michel Foucault biography Michel Foucault was a French philosopher, historian and cultural theorist, an outstanding representative of modern French structuralism (although he rejected being associated with this label) and an intellectual figure of the European and world level. Michael Foucault was born in 1926 in the city of Poitiers, France. His father was a well-to-do…

Immanuel Kant biography Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher, the founder of the German classical philosophy. He is considered the starting point for the German Idealism and one of the most important thinkers of the Age of Enlightenment and modern Europe in general. His most famous work is the Critique of Pure Reason. Immanuel Kant…

John Dewey John Dewey, born in 1859 in Burlington, USA, was a 20th-century philosopher, psychologist, one of the founders of pragmatism, functionalism and a prominent figure in American education movement. His numerous articles on important social matters made him one of the most influential social commentators of his time. Dewey was the third son out…

Rene Descartes Rene Descartes was a French 17th-century philosopher, mathematician and scientist famous above all for saying “I think, therefore I am.” But what makes him stand out is that he was a rationalist, in the meanwhile other philosophers were still arguing about different matters regarding God. He is also credited with being the father…

St. Thomas Aquinas (AKA Thomas of Aquin or Aquino) GermanSicilian theologian and philosopher, born near Aquino, Italy. He became a Dominican and, despite family opposition, left Italy to study theology in Paris and later under *Albertus Magnus at Cologne. Although nicknamed by fellow students ‘The Dumb Ox’, he is now considered to have been the greatest systematic theologian of…

Jeremy Bentham English utilitarian philosopher, born in London. Son of a solicitor, he was a precocious and prodigious student. After graduating from Oxford in 1763, he studied law under Blackstone but was dismayed by its anomalies and illogicalities and thus abandoned the idea of going into practice. The publication of his Fragment on Government in…

Johann Gottlieb Fichte was a representative of classical German idealism, a bourgeois democrat, a passionate patriot and humanist, a brave innovator who deliberately took up the construction of the theory of dialectics in the modern sense of this term. Fichte was born in Rammenau, Upper Lusatia in 1762. His father Christian was a ribbon maker…

About Author Ayn Rand is a famous American writer and philosopher, one of the main creators of the Objectivism movement in philosophy. The writer was born on January 20, 1905, in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Her name at birth was Alisa Zinov’yevna Rosenbaum. The author is widely known among American and western literary circles. She used…

Jacques Derrida was one of the most prominent philosophers of the 20th century known above all as a founder of deconstructionism. His works were rather difficult to apprehend, sometimes even challenging for common sense, but he deliberately stepped away from such movements as existentialism, phenomenology, and structuralism, very popular at the time, and eventually became…

Bertrand Russell biography Bertrand Russell was a British philosopher, mathematician, writer, historian and Nobel laureate. Known for his work in defense of pacifism, atheism, as well as liberalism and left-wing politics and made an invaluable contribution to mathematical logic, the history of philosophy and the epistemology. Less known are his works on aesthetics, pedagogy, and…