Philosophers

Philosophers 

Rene’ Descartes, 1596-1650

 

John Locke, 1632-1704

Baruch Spinoza, 1632-1677

 

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1646-1716

 

Voltaire, 1694-1778,

• French Enlightenment 
• Critical of Christianity especially of Roman Catholic Church and Slavery
• Advocate for freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and separation of church and state
• Like most enlightenment authors, he was a deist

 

David Hume, 1711-1776

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778

Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804

 

Georg Wilhelm Fredrich Hegel, 1770-1831

Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882

John Stuart Mill, 1806-1873

Soren Kierkegaard, 1813-1855

 

Karl Marx, 1818-1883

Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900

 

Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970

Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1889-1951

 

Martin Heidegger, 1889-1976

Jean-Paul Sartre, 1905-1980