Philosophers

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  • Socrates
    339 BCE

    Socrates

    Socrates - Greek philosopher, whose teachings marks a turn in philosophy - from the consideration of the nature of the world and to consider the human. His work - the turning point of ancient philosophy.
  • Thomas Hobbes

    Thomas Hobbes

    Thomas Hobbes - English materialist philosopher, one of the founders of the social contract theory and the theory of state sovereignty.Died in 1679.
  • René Descartes

    René Descartes

    René Descartes- French philosopher, mathematician, engineer, physicist and physiologist, the founder of modern analytic geometry and algebraic symbols, the author of the method of radical doubt in philosophy, mechanistic physics, the forerunner of reflexology.died in 1950
  • Benedict Spinoza

    Benedict Spinoza

    Benedict Spinoza - Dutch philosopher, rationalist, naturalist, of Jewish origin, one of the main representatives of modern philosophy.Died in1677.
  • David Hume

    David Hume

    David Hume - Scottish philosopher, representative of empiricism, psychological atomism, nominalism and skepticism; According to some researchers, an agnostic, a precursor of the second positivism, economist and historian, publicist.Died in 1776.
  • Immanuel Kant

    Immanuel Kant

    Immanuel Kant - the German philosopher, the founder of German classical philosophy, which stands on the brink of the Enlightenment and Romanticism.Died in 1804.