Curated category
Metaphysicians
- Thomas AquinasIn the year 1244, a young man named Thomas Aquinas sat bound in the stone tower of Monte San Giovanni Campano. He was nineteen years old and dressed in the…
- Leo TolstoyCount Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy entered the world at Yasnaya Polyana, a family estate located southwest of Tula and south of Moscow.
- Karl MarxKarl Marx entered the world on the 5th of May 1818 at Brückengasse 664 in Trier, then part of the Kingdom of Prussia. His father Heinrich Marx worked as a…
- John LockeOn the 29th of August in the year of our Lord 1632, a boy named John Locke was born in the village of Wrington, Somerset.
- Baruch SpinozaOn the 24th of November 1632, a boy named Baruch Espinoza was born into a house on the Houtgracht canal. This street sat on an artificial island called the…
- Shen KuoIn the year 1031, a boy named Shen Kuo was born in Qiantang, now known as Hangzhou. He suffered from frequent illnesses during his early years.
- Edmund HusserlEdmund Husserl was born on the 8th of April 1859 in Proßnitz, a town in the Margraviate of Moravia within the Austrian Empire.
- LaoziModern scholars in the mid-twentieth century reached a consensus that the historicity of Laozi is doubtful. They view the Dào Dé Jīng as a compilation of…
- LucretiusThe 15th of October in the year 55 BC marks the death of Titus Lucretius Carus, yet his birth remains a shadow. A note by Jerome places his life under the…
- Mulla SadraMulla Sadra entered the world in 1571 or 1572 within the city of Shiraz, Iran. He was born into a notable Persian family of court officials under the Safavid…
- José Ortega y GassetJosé Ortega y Gasset was born on the 9th of May 1883 in Madrid. His father directed the newspaper El Imparcial, which belonged to his mother Dolores Gasset's…
- Michel WeberMichel Weber was born in 1963. He began his academic journey studying applied economics at the Saint-Louis University in Brussels.