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1 day ago · Martin Heidegger. Martin Heidegger (/ ˈhaɪdɛɡər, ˈhaɪdɪɡər /; [3] German: [ˈmaʁtiːn ˈhaɪdɛɡɐ]; [3] 26 September 1889 – 26 May 1976) was a German philosopher who is best known for contributions to phenomenology, hermeneutics, and existentialism. His work covers a wide range of topics including ontology, technology, art ...
2 days ago · e. Ibn Sina (Persian: ابن سینا, romanized:Ibn Sīnā; c.980 – 22 June 1037 CE), commonly known in the West as Avicenna (/ ˌævɪˈsɛnə, ˌɑːvɪ -/), was a preeminent philosopher and physician of the Muslim world, [ 4 ][ 5 ] flourishing during the Islamic Golden Age, serving in the courts of various Iranian rulers. [ 6 ]
5 days ago · In exploring this territory, I will take Plotinus as my guide—an unexpected choice, perhaps, for Plotinus is certainly not known for haunting the marshlands. In fact, Plotinus is the philosopher, Porphyry tells us, who did not even want his portrait to be made so great was his contempt for the physical form.
2 days ago · His philosophy was a starting point for a new generation of philosophers including Julius Bahnsen, Paul Deussen, Lazar von Hellenbach, Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, Ernst Otto Lindner, Philipp Mainländer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Olga Plümacher and Agnes Taubert.
4 days ago · Erasmus, Dutch humanist who was the greatest scholar of the northern Renaissance, the first editor of the New Testament, and also an important figure in patristics and classical literature. Learn more about Erasmus’s life, including his various works as well as his legacy.
1 day ago · Islamic theology (kalām) and philosophy (falsafah) are two traditions of learning developed by Muslim thinkers who were engaged, on the one hand, in the rational clarification and defense of the principles of the Islamic religion (mutakallimūn) and, on the other, in the pursuit of the ancient (Greek and Hellenistic, or Greco-Roman) sciences ...
5 days ago · Roger Bacon (born c. 1220, Ilchester, Somerset, or Bisley, Gloucester?, England—died 1292, Oxford?) was an English Franciscan philosopher and educational reformer who was a major medieval proponent of experimental science. Bacon studied mathematics, astronomy, optics, alchemy, and languages.
