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“Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.” Jean-François Lyotard was a French philosopher whose best known work often to his chagrin was his 1979 The Postmodern Condition. -
“Too fair to worship, too divine to love.” Hegel was a German philosopher and the most important figure in German idealism. Essentially, Hegel sees human societies evolving in the same way that an argument might evolve. -
His political philosophy is chiefly concerned with the way in which government must be organized in order to avoid civil war. It therefore encompasses a view of the typical causes of civil war, all of which are represented in Behemoth; or, The Long Parliament (1679), his history of the English Civil Wars. -
“The past is certain, the future obscure.” Thales of Miletus was an influential pre-Socratic and Ancient Greek Philosopher. Historically, He was renowned as one of the legendary Seven Wise Men, or Sophoi, of antiquity. -
An unexamined life is not worth living.” Socrates was a classical Greek (Athenian) philosopher held to be the founder of Western Philosophy. He's best known through Plato’s dialogues, which has a great contribution to the fields of ethics and education. -
“Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.” Plato was a philosopher in classical Greece and founder of the Academy in Athens which considered the first university in the Western world. -
“The law is reason, free from passion.” Aristotle was considered as one of the most influential philosophers who made a big contribution to logic, mathematics, ethics, etc. Aristotle argued that virtues are good habits we acquire, which regulate our emotions. -
Without human freedom, thought Kant, moral appraisal and moral responsibility would be impossible. Kant believes that if a person could not act otherwise, then his or her act can have no moral worth.