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Best known through Plato’s dialogues, which has a great contribution to the fields of ethics and education. He Socrates was a classical Greek (Athenian) philosopher held to be the founder of Western Philosophy. He's
believed that virtue could be known, though he himself did not profess to know it and that people who act badly, therefore, do so only because of their ignorance or mistake to understand the real nature of virtue. But there are some who do bad things for their own intent. -
Considered the first university in the western world. Plato's philosophy regarding virtue and human fulfillment Plato was a philosopher in classical Greece and founder of the Academy in Athens which
concerns the way people trying to achieve happy living. For Plato, the wise person uses the mind to understand moral reality and then apply it to her daily life. Human beings desire many things in life to be happy and this becomes a problem when we desire a good thing in the wrong way. -
To logic, mathematics, ethics. Aristotle argued that virtues are good habits we acquire, which regulate our Aristotle was considered as one of the most influential philosophers who made a big contribution
emotions. In his philosophy, he did not consider virtues to be simple knowledge as Plato did. He explained it as something that should be done by acting in accordance with nature and with moderation. For example in food, we must eat only the amount of food our body needs to avoid excess. -
Hobbes is best known for his political thought, and deservedly so. His vision of the world is strikingly original and still relevant to contemporary politics. His main concern is the problem of social and political order: how human beings can live together in peace and avoid the danger and fear of civil conflict.
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Is the central figure in modern philosophy. He argues that the human understanding is the source of the general laws of nature that structure all our experience; and that human reason gives itself the moral law, which is our basis for belief in God, freedom, and immortality. Therefore, scientific knowledge, morality, and religious belief are mutually consistent and secure because they all rest on the same foundation of human autonomy. He believed that reason is the source of morality.
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The most influential English language philosopher of the nineteenth century. He was a naturalist, a utilitarian, and a liberal, whose work explores the consequences of a thoroughgoing empiricist outlook. In doing so, he sought to combine the best of eighteenth-century Enlightenment thinking with newly emerging currents of nineteenth-century Romantic and historical philosophy.
