Philosophers

Alan Watts
Alan Watts or Alan Wilson Watts was a British philosopher, writer, and speaker who popularized and interpreted Eastern Philosophy for the Western audience. He ...

Albert Camus
A Nobel Prize laureate, Albert Camus was the French Algerian philosopher, author and journalist, much renowned worldwide for his contribution in the field of ...

Albert Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer was a German born French theologian, organist, philosopher, physician, and medical missionary. His notable work is in founding the Albert ...

Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead was a British Mathematician who is known for his tremendous contributions in algebra, logic, foundations of mathematics, philosophy of ...

Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
“Last of the Romans”, as he is fondly dubbed, Boethius, the Roman philosopher and statesman, is regarded by many as a Christian martyr who died for a Christian ...

Aristotle
Aristotle was a Greek philosopher, better known as the teacher of Alexander the Great. He was the student of Plato and was considered to be an important figure ...

Arthus Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer was an extremely talented German philosopher, best known for his pessimism and clarity of philosophical works. He completed and published ...

Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS, is one of the finest names in the list of great philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, ...

Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Catholic philosopher. He did pioneering works in calculating machines and came up ...

David Hume
David Hume was a fabulous philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist from Scotland. He was extremely popular for his amazing philosophical empiricism and ...

Diogenes Of Sinope
Diogenes was a commendable Greek philosopher and one of the founders of the Cynic philosophy from Sinope. He is also remembered as “Diogenes of Sinope” or ...

Epicurus
Epicurus was an ancient Greek philosopher and one of the prominent philosophers in the Hellenistic period. He was the founder of the school of philosophy ...

F. H. Bradley
Francis Herbert Bradley, OM was one of the most influential British idealistic philosophers. Bradley after a number of attempts to gain a fellowship finally ...

Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon was a legendary English philosopher, scientist, lawyer, author, statesman, jurist and father of the scientific methods. He was one of the most ...

Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche was a famous German philosopher and philologist known for his critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy and ...

Friedrich von Hayek
If there is one twentieth-century economist who can be tagged as the Renaissance man, it has to be Friedrich Hayek, the Austrian born British economist who ...

Galileo Galilei
If the world knows any name as the father of science then Galileo Galilei is surely the one. Galilei is a name that starts and ends modern day Science and its ...

Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer was an English philosopher, biologist and sociologist. He was also one of the influential classical liberal political theorists of the ...

Hippocrates
Hippocrates is a radiant name in the history of medicine. The outstanding individual brought a new form into the field of ancient Greek medicine. Hippocrates’ ...

Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant was a famous Prussian philosopher. He was a professor of philosophy at Königsberg, in Prussia and spent his life in researching, lecturing and ...

Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was an excellent existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer and literary ...

Jeremy Bentham
Jeremy Bentham, the key founder of the Principle of Utility, was a voracious reader at a very early age. He was known as a ‘philosopher’ to his family since ...

John Dewey
John Dewey was a famous American philosopher, psychologist and educational reformer. He was also the founder of functional psychology and one of the earliest ...

John Locke
John Locke was an outstanding English philosopher and physician, extensively known as the “Father of Liberalism”. He was also admired as one of the most ...

John Stuart Mill
A British philosopher and civil servant, John Stuart Mill was an influential contributor to social theory, political theory, and political economy. He was ...

Karl Marx
Karl Heinrich Marx was a popular German philosopher, political economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, and revolutionary socialist. His works ...

Karl Popper
Karl Popper, also known as Sir Karl Raimund Popper, was an Austrian-born British Philosopher and a professor at the London School of Economics. He is ...

Lao Tzu
Lao Tzu also known as Laozi or Lao Tse was a mystic Chinese philosopher who was best known as the author of the “Tao Te Ching”. Being the author of “Tao Te ...

Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein was an Austrian philosopher who inspired two great philosophical movements of the 20th century — logical positivism and ordinary language ...

Maimonides
Moses ben-Maimon, commonly called Maimonides, was a distinguished Jewish philosopher of medieval times. Apart from being an eminent philosopher, he was also ...

Martin Buber
Martin Buber was an influential twentieth century Jewish philosopher and an outstanding religious thinker, political activist, educator, essayist, translator ...

Meister Eckhart
Eckhart von Hochheim, better known to the world as Meister Eckhart, was born in a German family of landowners in c.1260. He was endowed with the honorific ...

Mencius
Mencius was a famous Chinese philosopher, born in the state of Zou. He was controversially considered the most popular Confucian, after Confucius himself. The ...

Michel de Montaigne
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne was among the most powerful writers of the French Renaissance. He was extremely popular for publicizing the essay as a literary ...

Philo
Philo who, also known as Philo of Alexandria, Philo Judaeus, Philo Judaeus of Alexandria, Yedidia, "Philon", and Philo the Jew, was a popular and prominent ...

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was a famous French philosopher and Jesuit priest who was also trained as a paleontologist and geologist. He took active part in the ...

Plato
Plato was a classical Greek philosopher and mathematician, more so known as the student of Socrates and writer of philosophical dialogues. He founded the ...

Plutarch
Plutarch was a Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist, known for his famous works, “Parallel Lives” and “Moralia”. “Parallel Lives” was a ...

Socrates
“As for me, all I know is that I know nothing” - a famous quote describes the humble and modest attitude of one of the most famous Greek Athenian philosopher, ...

Soren Kierkegaard
Soren Kierkegaard was a famous Danish philosopher, theologian and religious author. He was well known for his criticism of the philosophies of Georg Wilhelm ...

Sun Tzu
Sun Tzu was an ancient Chinese military general, strategist and philosopher, who is believed to have written the famous ancient Chinese book on military ...

Thales
Thales of Miletus was a prominent and popular Greek philosopher of pre- Socratic times. He belonged to Miletus in Asia Minor and was among the Seven Sages of ...

Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle was a popular satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher from Scotland in the Victorian era, born in the village of Ecclefechan, ...

Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes was a prominent English philosopher, who is best known for his excellent work on political philosophy. His 1651 book “Leviathan” marked the ...

William James
William James was one of the original thinkers and a famous American philosopher. For his pioneering work in psychology, he was often called as the ‘Father of ...