JEREMY BENTHAM Right actions bring happiness Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), an English philosopher and social reformer, was one of the main thinkers in the history of modern ethics. He was the first to f...

EDMUND BURKE The Terror of the Sublime Edmund Burke (1729–1797) was a British philosopher and politician. He grew up in Dublin, Ireland, which was then part of Britain, and after college education mov...

RENÉ DESCARTES I am a thing which thinks René Descartes (1596-1650), an important French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist, is considered the father of modern philosophy. Under his influence, ...

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

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...

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) THEMES ON THIS PAGE: 1. SOLITUDE2. ON HUMAN INCONSISTENCY3. FRIENDSHIP4. LIFE´S PLEASURE 5. DEATH  Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) was an influential French p...

Thomas Reid (1710-1796) THEMES ON THIS PAGE:  1. COMMON SENSE 2. HUMAN POWERS 3. GRANDEUR Thomas Reid (1710-1796) was a Scottish philosopher and the father of modern “common-sense philo...