Curated category
Virtue ethicists
- 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…
- 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…
- David HumeDavid Hume was born on the 7th of May 1711 in a tenement building located on the north side of Edinburgh's Lawnmarket. He entered the University of Edinburgh…
- Adam SmithAdam Smith was born in the port town of Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland. His father died two months before his birth, leaving his mother Margaret Douglas a widow.
- John Maynard KeynesJohn Maynard Keynes entered the world on the 5th of June 1883 in Cambridge, England. His father John Neville Keynes worked as an economist and lecturer at…