The Hegelian Dialectic: Thesis + Antithesis = Synthesis Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770 – 1831) pioneered what is called the…
Liberalism of the 18th and 19th centuries would not have had Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton as adherents. Liberals of…
Adam Smith (1723-1790) was an 18th century Scottish philosopher and economist who wrote The Wealth of Nations, a famous book…
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was a Francophone Genevan philosopher of the Enlightenment of the 18th century. Like his predecessor Hobbes, Rousseau advocated…
John Locke (1632-1704) was one of the most influential philosophers of the Enlightenment and has been called “the Father of…
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was an English political philosopher of the Enlightenment period. Hobbes pioneered the idea of the “state of…
David Hume (1711-1776) was a philosopher during the so-called Enlightenment of the 17th-18th centuries. One of his infamous contributions to…