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G.E.M. Anscombe – How Wittgenstein cured me

Saturday, 30 December 2017

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G.E.M. Anscombe – How Wittgenstein cured me Elizabeth Anscombe (1919-2001) (usually called G.E.M. Anscombe), was an important British philosopher in the analytic tradition. She was born i...

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John Stuart Mill - The birth of a theory about happiness

Saturday, 23 December 2017

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John Stuart Mill – The birth of a theory about happiness John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) was an important British philosopher who has been especially influential in the fields of Ethics, Political...

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John Locke – From a friendly conversation to a major philosophy book

Friday, 08 December 2017

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John Locke – From a friendly conversation to a major philosophy book John Locke (1632-1704) was an important English philosopher, a major thinker of empiricism and of liberalism. He studied cla...

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Gottfried Leibniz – The philosophical insight of a teenager

Saturday, 02 December 2017

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Gottfried Leibniz – The philosophical insight of a teenager Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) was an important German philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. In mathematics, he discovere...

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Bertrand Russell – From mathematical thinking to Hegelianism and back

Friday, 17 November 2017

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Bertrand Russell – From mathematical thinking to Hegelianism and back Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) was an important British philosopher, considered one of the founders of modern analytic philos...

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Maria Zambrano – The discovery that philosophy steps out of life

Saturday, 11 November 2017

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Maria Zambrano – The discovery that philosophy steps out of life Maria Zambrano (1904-1991) was a Spanish philosopher who wrote in a unique poetic style. Her father was an intellectual, and she...

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Rousseau's "a thousand brilliant insights" (1749)

Wednesday, 18 October 2017

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Rousseau's "a thousand brilliant insights" (1749) "I was on my way to see Diderot, who was then a prisoner at Vincennes. I had in my pocket a copy of the magazine “Mercure de France,” wh...

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Plotinus: The shock of returning to the material world

Sunday, 29 October 2017

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Plotinus: The shock of returning to the material world Plotinus (about 204-270 AD), was a major ancient philosopher who operated in Rome. He was a central figure of Neoplatonism – a scho...

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