Find out more about the greatest 18th Century Philosophers, including Immanuel Kant, Voltaire, Adam Smith, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Olympe de Gouges.
Immanuel Kant22 April 1724, German
Philosopher
Voltaire21 November 1694, French
Writer
Adam Smith16 June 1723, Scottish
Economist and Philosopher
Jean-Jacques Rousseau28 June 1712, Swiss, French
Philosopher, Writer, & Composer
David Hume26 April 1711, Scottish
Philosopher & Historian
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel27 August 1770, German
Philosopher, Philosophy Historian
Arthur Schopenhauer22 February 1788, German
Philosopher
Mary Wollstonecraft27 April 1759, British
Writer
Jeremy Bentham15 February 1748, British
Philosopher
Edmund Burke12 January 1729, Irish, British
Statesman
Montesquieu18 January 1689, French
Philosopher
George Berkeley12 March 1685, Irish, British
philosopher
Friedrich Schiller10 November 1759, German
Poet, Playwright, Historian & Philosopher
Denis Diderot05 October 1713, French
Philosopher
Thomas Carlyle04 December 1795, Scottish
Philosopher
Joseph Priestley24 March 1733, British
Discoverer of Oxygen
Ethan Allen21 January 1738, American
Revolutionary War Hero
Adam Weishaupt06 February 1748, German
Philosopher
William Godwin03 March 1756, British
Journalist
Marquis de Condorcet17 September 1743, French
Mathematician, Philosopher
Novalis02 May 1772, German
Philosopher & Poet
Maria Gaetana Agnesi16 May 1718, Italian
Mathematician, Philosopher, Theologian
Jonathan Edwards05 October 1703, American
American preacher
Samuel Coleridge21 October 1772, British
Poet
Gottfried W. Leibniz01 July 1646, German
Philosopher, Mathematician
Jean Le Rond d’Alembert16 November 1717, French
Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher And Musical
Ram Mohan Roy22 May 1772, Indian
Philosopher, Social reformer
Carl von Clausewitz01 July 1780, German
Military person
Johann Gottlieb Fichte19 May 1762, German
Philosopher, University teacher
Charles Fourier07 April 1772, French
Economist, Sociologist, Philosopher
Johann Gottfried Herder25 August 1744, German, Polish
philosopher, theologian, poet, translator
Wilhelm von Humboldt22 June 1767, German
Linguist, Diplomat, Anthropologist, Teacher,
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Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling27 January 1775, German
Philosopher, University teacher
James Mill06 April 1773, American, Scottish
Historian
Friedrich Schleiermacher21 November 1768, German, Polish
Philosopher, Theologian, Translator, University
Moses Mendelssohn06 September 1729, German
Philosopher, Translator, Writer, Bible translator
Giacomo Leopardi29 June 1798, Italian
Writer, Poet, Philosopher, Philologist
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing22 January 1729, German
Writer, Philosopher, Playwright, Poet, Librarian,
Giambattista VicoItalian
Germaine de Staël22 April 1766, French
Philosopher
Joseph de MaistreFrench
François Quesnay04 June 1694, French
Philosopher, Economist, Physician,
Benjamin Constant25 October 1767, Swiss, French
Philosopher, Politician, Writer, Diarist
Nicolas Malebranche06 August 1638, French
Philosopher, Writer, Theologian
William Paley14 July 1743, British
Philosopher, Theologian, University teacher
William Whewell24 May 1794, British
Economist, Physicist, Historian, Philosopher,
David Brewster11 December 1781, British, Scottish
Botanist, Civil engineer, Physicist, Engineer,
Thomas ReidScottish
Johann Georg Hamann27 August 1730, German
Philosopher
Roger Joseph BoscovichCroatian
Andrés Bello29 November 1781, Chilean, Venezuelan
Poet, Legislator, Philosopher, Educator,
Bernard Mandeville15 November 1670, Dutch
Philosopher, Economist, Writer
Adam Ferguson20 June 1723, British
Philosopher, Librarian, Historian, Soldier,
Richard Price
Johann Friedrich Herbart04 April 1776, German
philosopher, psychologist, educationist,
Julien Offray de La MettrieFrench
Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten17 July 1714, German
philosopher, professor
N. F. S. Grundtvig08 September 1783, Danish
Poet, Historian, Philosopher, Theologian, Writer,
Joseph Butler18 May 1692, British
Philosopher
August Wilhelm Schlegel08 September 1767, German
Linguist, Translator, Sanskrit scholar,
Claude Adrien Helvétius26 January 1715, French
Philosopher, Writer, French moralists
Dugald StewartBritish, Scottish
Frances Wright06 September 1795, British
Writer, Philosopher
Antonio Soler03 December 1729, Spanish
Composer, Organist, Musicologist, Music theorist,
Samuel Clarke11 October 1675, British
Philosopher
Joseph Joubert07 May 1754, French
Philosopher, Essayist, Writer
Judith Sargent Murray
Karl Christian Friedrich Krause06 May 1781, German
Philosopher, University teacher
Louis Gabriel Ambroise de Bonald02 October 1754, French
Philosopher, Politician, Essayist
Alexandre Vinet17 June 1797, Swiss
Theologian, Philosopher, Journalist, Writer,
Comte de Saint-Germain1691 AD, Hungarian
Adventurer
James Beattie25 October 1735, Scottish, Welsh
Linguist, Poet, Translator, Philosopher, Writer
John Austin03 March 1790, British
jurist, philosopher
Christian Wolff24 January 1679, German, Polish
jurist, mathematician, philosopher, university
Abraham Tucker02 September 1705, British
Philosopher, Writer
Francis Hutcheson08 August 1694, Irish, British
philosopher, economist
Émilie du ChâteletFrench
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac30 September 1715, French
philosopher, economist, writer, psychologist