Ethical Philosophers and their respective ethical philosophies

  • Socrates (469 BC- 399 BC)
    469 BCE

    Socrates (469 BC- 399 BC)

    Socrates was a Greek philosopher from Athens who is widely regarded as the founder of Western philosophy. Although he did not profess to be aware of virtue, he believed it might be aware of it. He also felt that everyone who comprehends the meaning of virtue must act virtuously.
  • Plato (428-348 BC)
    428 BCE

    Plato (428-348 BC)

    Plato was a Greek philosopher and the founder of the Academy at Athens, which is regarded as the world's first university. Plato's philosophy of of virtue and human fulfillment is concerned with people's attempts to live happy lives. The wise person, according to Plato, uses their mind to comprehend moral truth and then apply it to her daily life.
  • Aristotle (384 BC- 322 BC)
    384 BCE

    Aristotle (384 BC- 322 BC)

    Aristotle was regarded as one of the most influential philosophers who made significant contributions to logic, mathematics, ethics, and other fields. Virtues, according to Aristotle, are excellent habits that we develop and that manage our emotions. Every virtue, he argued, lies halfway between the vices of deficiency and excess. That is, one can exhibit too little or too much of a good thing, or a virtue.
  • Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)

    Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)

    Thomas Hobbes was one of the founders of modern political philosophy. His philosophical foundation was based on materialism, with the belief that everything happens as a result of the physical world and that the soul, as previously articulated by philosophers, does not exist.
  • Immanuel Kant (1724–1804)

    Immanuel Kant (1724–1804)

    Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher who was a key figure in the Enlightenment. Kant is regarded as one of the most significant figures in modern Western philosophy. His moral philosophy is freedom and claims that human reason gives itself the morallaw, which is our basis for belief in God, freedom, and immortality, and that human knowledge is the source of the general laws of nature that organize all of our experience.
  • Jean-François Lyotard (1924–1998)

    Jean-François Lyotard (1924–1998)

    Jean-François Lyotard was a French philosopher, sociologist, and literary theorist. Lyotard maintained that events constantly happen in the face of what is not presentable to a phenomenology, discourse, language game, or phrase regimen, from his early work on phenomenology through discourse, figure, libidinal economy, and the postmodern condition.