by admin | Feb 26, 2020 | Scholars
Gabriel Marcel (1889-1973) was born in Paris, France. He is a world renown French existentialist dramatist, philosopher and drama critic. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland 1951-1952, and at Harvard University in the United States...
by admin | Nov 2, 2022 | Scholars
Maurice Merleau-Ponty was born on March 14, 1908, in Rochefort-sur-Mer, France. As with many of his generation, Merleau-Ponty lost his father to the war. Merleau-Ponty first studies philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure and then becomes a high school philosophy...
by admin | Feb 26, 2020 | Scholars
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, was born on Oct. 15, 1844, and died on Aug. 25, 1900. He was a German philosopher who, together with Soren Kierkegaard, shares the distinction of being a precursor of Existentialism. He studied classics at the universities of Bonn and...
by admin | Dec 27, 2019 | Scholars
Plato was born to an aristocratic family in Athens. His father, Ariston, was believed to have descended from the early kings of Athens. Perictione, his mother, was distantly related to the 6th-century B.C. lawmaker Solon. When Plato was a child, his father died, and...
by admin | Feb 26, 2020 | Scholars
Paul Ricoeur (1913-)was born and raised in the west of France. He has occupied the position of professor of philosophy at the Universities of Strasbourg and Paris (the Sorbonne, Nanterre) and has been a visiting professor at numerous other universities, the University...
by admin | Feb 22, 2020 | Scholars
Rorty, Richard, post-analytic philosophy. Rorty has been professor of Humanities at the University of Virginia and professor at Princeton. His books include Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1980), The Consequences of Pragmatism (1982), Contingency Irony and...
