Ethical Philosophers

Confucius

551 BCE

Confucius was a Chinese philosopher and politician of the Spring and Autumn period who was traditionally considered the paragon of Chinese sages.Confucius is known as the first teacher in China who wanted to make education broadly available and who was instrumental in establishing the art of teaching as a vocation. He also established ethical, moral, and social standards that formed the basis of a way of life known as Confucianism

Plato

428 BCE

Plato was an Athenian philosopher during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, founder of the Platonist school of thought and the Academy, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.
Born: Classical Athens
Died: Athens, Greece
Movies: The War That Never Ends, Socrates, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Die Nacht, Le banquet, more
Influenced by: Socrates, Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Homer, Protagoras, Zeno of Elea,

Aristotle

384 BCE

Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. Taught by Plato, he was the founder of the Lyceum, the Peripatetic school of philosophy, and the Aristotelian tradition.

Epicurus

341 BCE

Epicurus was an ancient Greek philosopher and sage who founded Epicureanism, a highly influential school of philosophy. He was born on the Greek island of Samos to Athenian parents.
Born: February 341 BC, Samos, Greece
Died: 270 BC, Athens, Greece
School: Epicureanism
Parents: Neocles, Chaerestrate

René Descartes

Mar 31, 1596

René Descartes was a French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist who invented analytical geometry, linking the previously separate fields of geometry and algebra.Descartes has been heralded as the first modern philosopher. He is famous for having made an important connection between geometry and algebra, which allowed for the solving of geometrical problems by way of algebraic equations.9 Apr 2001

Immanuel Kant

Apr 22, 1724

Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers. Kant's comprehensive and systematic works in epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics have made him one of the most influential figures in modern Western philosophy. Wikipedia
Born: 22 April 1724, Königsberg
Died: 12 February 1804, Königsberg
Influenced: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Friedrich Nietzsche, Arthur Schopenhauer, more
Influenced by: Aristotle, René Descartes, Plato, David Hume

Ralph Waldo Emerson

May 26, 1803

Ralph Waldo Emerson, who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.
Born: 25 May 1803, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Died: 27 April 1882, Concord, Massachusetts, United States
Poems: Brahma, Concord Hymn, The Rhodora, Boston Hymn, Uriel, Terminus, more
Essays: Self-Reliance, The Poet, The Over-Soul, Compensation, The Transcendentalist

Michel Foucault

Oct 15, 1926

Paul-Michel Foucault was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, writer, political activist, and literary critic. Foucault's theories primarily address the relationship between power and knowledge, and how they are used as a form of social control through societal institutions.
Born: 15 October 1926, Poitiers, France
Died: 25 June 1984, Paris, France
Influenced: Gilles Deleuze, Pierre Bourdieu, Judith Butler, Giorgio Agamben, Edward Said