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70Averroes
Averroes (1126-1198) is the Latin name of the Muslim philosopher Abu'l-Walid Muhammad Ibn Rushd. He was born in Cordoba of a distinguished Spanish Arab family. Having received a broad education both in Islamic studies and in the secular,...
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72Pythagoreanism
By Pythagoreanism is meant both the political movement and the philosophical doctrine initiated by Pythagoras and developed by the Pythagoreans (his followers and their continuators).
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64Ernst Cassirer
Ernst Cassirer was a German philosopher, who was an important exponent of neo-Kantian philosophy and was particularly concerned with the function of symbols in human knowledge. He was born at Breslau, Lower Silesia, on July 28, 1874, and studied at...
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72William Godwin
William Godwin was a English political philosopher and man of letters. Godwin was born in Wisbeach, England, on March 3, 1756, the son of a dissenting minister. He grew up in the East Anglian tradition of religious radicalism that, given the...
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68Etienne Bonnot de Condillac
Etienne Bonnot de Condillac was a French philosopher. A contemporary of Jean Jacques Rousseau and Denis Diderot, Condillac was the only philosopher of the Encyclopedist era to create a systematic theory of knowledge. He was strongly influenced by...
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67Peregrinus Proteus
Peregrinus Proteus was a Greek philosopher and Christian preacher born in Parium, Mysia, Asia Minor, 95 A.D. After a debauched adolescence, during which he was suspected of patricide, Peregrinus migrated to Palestine, where he was converted to...
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66Eratosthenes
Eratosthenes of Cyrene was a Greek mathematician, astronomer, geographer, philosopher, and poet, whose varied talents earned him the epithet "pentathlete." Educated in Athens, he was called to Alexandria (about 245 B.C.) by Ptolemy III to serve as...
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64George Henry Lewes
George Henry Lewes was an English writer, positivist philosopher, and intimate friend of George Eliot. He was born in London on April 18, 1817. He was in turn clerk, medical student, and student of philosophy in Germany. He returned to England in...
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71Pyrrhonism
The founder of the philosophical school of Pyrrhonism and regarded as the father of Scepticism, Pyrrho (365-275 BC) was born in Elis, Greece. He was a pupil of Anaxarchus of Abdera and in about 330 began to teach philosophy in his native Elis. He...
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61Marcianus Aristides
Marcianus Aristides was Greek philosopher of the 2nd century A.D., who was considered to be the first Christian apologist. His name is also spelled Aristeides. He was known as Aristides of Athens. Nothing is known about his life except that he...
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