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Philosophers of mind

  • Jean-Jacques RousseauJean-Jacques Rousseau was born on the 28th of June 1712 in the Republic of Geneva. His mother Suzanne Bernard died nine days after his birth from puerperal…
  • Jorge Luis BorgesJorge Luis Borges was born on the 24th of August 1899 in Palermo, a poor neighborhood of Buenos Aires. His family lived in a large house filled with an…
  • Leo TolstoyCount Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy entered the world at Yasnaya Polyana, a family estate located southwest of Tula and south of Moscow.
  • 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…
  • Marcus AureliusMarcus Aurelius was born in Rome on the 26th of April 121. His birth name is sometimes given as Marcus Annius Verus, but sources assign this name to him upon…
  • The BuddhaSiddhartha Gautama lived in the eastern Indo-Gangetic Plains during the 6th or 5th century BCE. Scholars remain divided on his exact birth and death dates…
  • MenciusMeng Ke arrived in the state of Zou during a time when China was fracturing into warring factions. His father Meng Ji died while the boy was still very…
  • 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…
  • Adi ShankaraReliable information on Adi Shankara's actual life is scant, and the historical influence of his works on Hindu intellectual thought has been questioned.
  • 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…
  • Giovanni Pico della MirandolaGiovanni Pico della Mirandola entered the world on the 24th of February 1463 within the Castle of Mirandola, a small autonomous county in Emilia near Modena.
  • Vladimir Solovyov (philosopher)Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov was born in Moscow during the year 1853. He entered the Imperial Moscow University to study from 1869 until 1873.