Marcus Porcius Cato "the Elder" (234 BCE, Tusculum – 149 BCE) was a Roman statesman, commonly referred to as Censorius (the Censor), Sapiens (the Wise), Priscus (the Ancient), or Major, Cato the Elder,...
Jean-Paul Aron was a French writer, philosopher and journalist. His most notable work is Les Modernes , which was published in 1984.
Aron was born in Strasbourg. He was a close friend of Michel Foucau...
Sun Bin (died 316 BC) was a Chinese general, military strategist, and writer who lived during the Warring States period of Chinese history. A supposed descendant of Sun Tzu, Sun was tutored in milita...
Tzu (/ˈsuːnˈdzuː/; also rendered as Sun Zi) was a Chinese general, military strategist, and philosopher who lived in the Spring and Autumn period of ancient China. Sun Tzu is traditionally credited as ...
American mathematician, the originator of cybernetics, a formalization of the notion of feedback, with many implications for engineering, systems control, computer science, biology, philosophy, and the...
Marcus Porcius Cato (234–149 BCE), also known as Cato the Censor, the Elder and the Wise, was a Roman soldier, senator, and historian known for his conservatism and opposition to Hellenization. He was the first to write history in Latin (Origines).
Sima Qian, 司马迁 (c. 145/135 BCE – 86 BCE) Chinese historian, father of Chinese historiography.
Tacitus (c. 56 – c. 117 CE) Senator and historian of the Roman Empire.
Hypatia - Ὑπατία of Alexandria (370 – 415 CE) Greek scholar from Alexandria, Egypt, considered the first notable woman in mathematics, philosophy and astronomy.
Agathias Scholasticus, Αγαθίας σχολαστικός (c. 530 – 582/594), of Myrina (Mysia), Greek poet and the principal historian of part of the reign of the Roman emperor Justinian I between 552 and 558. His famous works: Cyclus, (The Circle) - compilation of "modern" (in Justinian's day) poems and epigrams which Agathias edited, and in which he included about 100 of his own productions. Historiæ - a sequel to Procopius' (public) history of Justinian's reign.
Bēda (672/673 – 735) Saint Bede or the Venerable Bede. English monk, author and scholar. "The Father of English History", by his work "Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (The Ecclesiastical History of the English People).
Einhard (c. 775 – March 14, 840 ACE) Frankish scholar and courtier. Einhard was a dedicated servant of Charlemagne and his son Louis the Pious; his main work is a biography of Charlemagne, the Vita Karoli Magni, "one of the most precious literary bequests of the early Middle Ages."
عمر خیام Omar Khayyám (1048 – 1131) Persian polymath: philosopher, mathematician, astronomer and poet. He also wrote treatises on mechanics, geography, mineralogy, music, climatology and theology. He is believed to have written about a thousand four-line verses or rubaiyat (quatrains).
Geoffrey of Monmouth (Latin: Galfridus Monemutensis) (c. 1100 – c. 1155) Cleric and one of the major figures in the development of British historiography and the popularity of tales of King Arthur. Best known for his chronicle Historia Regum Britanniae ("History of the Kings of Britain").
Martín de Azpilcueta or Doctor Navarrus, was an important Spanish canonist and theologian in his time, and an early economist, the first to develop monetarist theory.
John Locke (29/8/1632 – 28/10/1704) English philosopher
Capt. Edward Johnson (1598 - 1672), seminal author of the first history of New England
XVIII century
Voltaire (21/11/1694 – 30/5/1778) French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher
Jean Jacques Rousseau (28/6/1712 – 2/7/1778) Genevan philosopher & writer. His political philosophy influenced the French Revolution as well as the overall development of modern political, sociological and educational thought.
Imanuel Kant (22/4/1724 – 12/2/1804) German philosopher
Karl Marx (5/5/1818 – 14/3/1883) German Jewish philosopher, historian, sociologist, economist and writer
John Venn (4/8/1834 – 4/4/1923) British logician and philosopher, famous for introducing the Venn diagram.
Friedrich Nietzsche (15/10/1844 – 25/8/1900) German philologist, philosopher, cultural critic, poet and composer.
XX century
Henri Bergson (1859 – 1941) French philosopher. Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927.
John Dewey (1859 – 1952) American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG OM CH TD PCc DL FRS RA (1874 – 1965) British statesman, army officer and writer (see: A History of the English-Speaking Peoples). Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1940 - 1945 & 1951 - 1955. Nobel Prize in Literature, 1953.
Sir Isaiah Berlin, OM, CBE, FBA (1909 – 1997) Russian-British philosopher and historian of ideas, regarded as one of the leading thinkers of the twentieth century, and as the dominant liberal scholar of his generation.
A.J. Ayers (1910 – 1989) British philosopher known for his promotion of logical positivism, and a Special Operations MI6 agent.
Bernard Lewis (1916 – 2018) British-American historian, scholar in Oriental studies
Prof. Georg Henrik von Wright (1916 – 2003) Finnish philosopher, succeeded Wittgenstein as a professor in Cambridge. He focused on analytic philosophy and philosophical logic. He was also interested in moralism and pessimism.
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