Curated playlist
Philosophers of religion
- AvicennaIn a fortress prison, Avicenna imagined a man falling through air. It became known as the Floating Man.
- Augustine of HippoAugustine of Hippo once prayed, "Grant me chastity and continence, but not yet."
- Karl MarxKarl Marx left an estate valued at just 250 pounds when he died in 1883. He died stateless in London at 64.
- Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge coined the phrase "suspension of disbelief." He also battled opium addiction for years.
- Baruch SpinozaBaruch Spinoza was expelled from his Jewish community at twenty-three, and it still refuses him back.
- The BuddhaNo written record of the Buddha survives from his lifetime. Ashoka's edicts name him in the 3rd century BCE.
- Paul TillichTheologian Paul Tillich argued that the God most people debate is not God at all.
- AverroesIn 1169, a caliph asked the philosopher Averroes if the heavens had a beginning.
- Edmund BurkeOn the 28th of December 1792, Edmund Burke rose to speak in the House of Commons during the debate on the Aliens Bill. He pulled a concealed dagger from his coat and threw it to the floor. France, he said, had placed an order for 3,000…
- Søren KierkegaardSøren Kierkegaard invited a satirical newspaper to attack him, and it did.
- Karl PopperSir Karl Raimund Popper was born in Vienna on the 28th of July 1902 and died on the 17th of September 1994. In between, he built a philosophy of science on an odd idea. The strongest theories, he argued, are the ones most exposed to being…
- Adi ShankaraAdi Shankara, now called India's most important philosopher, was probably unknown in his own time.
- Michel WeberMichel Weber opened Belgium's first philosophical counseling service. He champions process philosophy.
- Slavoj ŽižekSlavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher whom one admirer called the Elvis of cultural theory and whom another label dubbed the most dangerous philosopher in the West. He was born on the 21st of March 1949 and has written over 50 books. He…