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Philosophers of technology
- AristotleAristotle was born in 384 BC in the city of Stagira, located about 55 kilometers east of modern-day Thessaloniki. His father Nicomachus served as the…
- 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…
- William MorrisWilliam Morris was born at Elm House in Walthamstow, Essex, on the 24th of March 1834. He entered a world of wealth and evangelical Protestantism as the…
- Aldous HuxleyThe year 1894 marked the birth of Aldous Leonard Huxley in Godalming, Surrey. He entered a world already defined by scientific brilliance and literary fame.
- Francis BaconFrancis Bacon was born on the 22nd of January 1561 at York House near Strand in London. He entered Trinity College at the University of Cambridge on the 5th…
- Karl JaspersKarl Theodor Jaspers was born on the 23rd of February 1883 in Oldenburg. His father worked as a jurist while his mother came from a local farming community.
- Nikolai BerdyaevNikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev was born near Kiev in 1874 to an aristocratic military family. His father, Alexander Mikhailovich Berdyaev, came from a long…
- 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…
- David ChalmersDavid John Chalmers was born on the 20th of April 1966 in Sydney, New South Wales. He grew up in Adelaide, South Australia, where he attended Unley High…
- Konstantin TsiolkovskyKonstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky was born in 1857 in the Russian Empire. His father, Makary Edward Erazm Ciołkowski, worked as a forester and later as a…