PHILOSOPHICAL EXPERIENCES
What is a philosophical experience? It is an experience that touches us with a profound philosophical insight. It is, in other words, a moment that connects between the personal and the philosophical, between my particular life-story and a fundamental issue of life. It is a conversation between me and the greater horizons of reality, between the little wave and the big ocean.
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) was an important German philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. In mathematics, he discovered differential and integral calculus in parallel with Newton.
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John Locke (1632-1704) was an important English philosopher, a major thinker of empiricism and of liberalism. He studied classical studies and medicine at Oxford University. He befriended the Earl of Shaftesbury,
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John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) was an important British philosopher who has been especially influential in the fields of Ethics, Political Philosophy, and Social Theory. He was also a parliament member, and an advocate of political freedom,
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Elizabeth Anscombe (1919-2001) (usually called G.E.M. Anscombe), was an important British philosopher in the analytic tradition. She was born in England, and at the age of 14 converted to Catholicism, to which she remained devout all her life. She married a fellow philosopher, Peter Geach, while studying classics and philosophy at Oxford.