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Dimitrije Mitrinović Facts

Dimitrije “Mita” Mitrinović (Serbian Cyrillic: Димитрије Митриновић; 21 October 1887 in Herzegovina – 28 August 1953 in Richmond (present-day Richmond-upon-Thames), Surrey, UK) was a Serbian philosopher, poet, revolutionary, mys

Hans Kelsen Facts

Hans Kelsen (October 11, 1881 – April 19, 1973) was an Austrian jurist, legal philosopher and political philosopher. Due to the rise of Nazism in Germany and Austria, Kelsen left his university post because of his Jewish ancestry, and departed to G

Adam Weishaupt Facts

Johann Adam Weishaupt (6 February 1748 – 18 November 1830) was a German philosopher and founder of the Order of the Illuminati, a secret society.

J. M. E. McTaggart Facts

John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart, commonly John McTaggart or J. M. E. McTaggart, D.Litt (/məkˈtæɡərt/; 3 September 1866 – 18 January 1925) was an idealist metaphysician. For most of his life McTaggart was a fellow and lecturer in philosophy at T

Francis Bacon Facts

Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount Saint Alban, KC (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, author and pioneer of the scientific method. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of En

Emmanuel Levinas Facts

Emmanuel Levinas (12 January 1906 – 25 December 1995) was a French philosopher of Lithuanian Jewish ancestry who is known for his work related to Jewish philosophy, existentialism, ethics, and ontology.

Zeljko Loparić Facts

Željko Loparić (born 3 December 1939) is a Croatian philosopher, historian of philosophy and university teacher. Born in Cvetković, Croatia, he is a naturalized Brazilian.

John Stuart Mill Facts

John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 8 May 1873) was an English philosopher, political economist, feminist, and civil servant. He was an influential contributor to social theory, political theory and political economy. He has been called “the most influ

Gilles Deleuze Facts

Gilles Deleuze was born on January 18, 1925 in Paris, France. He was an actor, known for L’abécédaire de Gilles Deleuze (1996) and George Who? (1973). He was married to Denise Paul Grandjouan. He died on November 4, 1995 in Paris.

Marilena Chauí Facts

Marilena de Souza Chaui (born September 4, 1941) is a Brazilian philosopher and member of the Workers Party.

Plato Facts

Plato (/ˈpleɪtoʊ/; Greek: Πλάτων Plátōn in Classical Attic; 428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC) was a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. H

Nassim Nicholas Taleb Facts

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Arabic: نسيم نيقولا نجيب طالب‎, alternatively Nessim or Nissim, born 1960) is a Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, statistician, and risk analyst, whose work focuses on problems of randomness, probability,