JOHN POWYS Inner Solitude John Cowper Powys (1872-1963) was a British thinker, lecturer, novelist, literary critic, and poet. He was born to a family with several poets and writers, and stu...
Susanne Langer (1895-1985) THEMES ON THIS PAGE: 1. THE NEED TO SYMBOLIZE2. ART SHAPES FEELINGS 3. ART AS AN ILLUSION Susanne Langer (1895-1985) was an American Philosopher, one of th...
JOHANN GEORG ZIMMERMANN Solitude elevates the mind Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann (1728-1795) was a Swiss philosopher and medical doctor. He was born to a noble family, studied at the ...
JULIÁN MARÍAS . 1. SOLITUDE 2. PHILOSOPHIZING INCLUDES ITS HISTORY 3. THE EXPERIENCE OF LIFE4. TRUTH 5. AUTHENTICITY . TOPIC 1. SOLITUDE Solitude as a fo...
SØREN KIERKEGAARD ATTITUDESOLITUDE The aesthetic versus the ethical Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) was a Danish philosopher who is regarded as one of the two “fa...
GIACOMO LEOPARDI Music is not about beauty Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) was a major Italian thinker and poet who died at the age of 39. The following is from his book THOUGHTS (Pensieri, 18...
Friedrich Schlegel (1772-1829) THEMES ON THIS PAGE: 1. ON PHILOSOPHIZING – FRAGMENTS AND SYMPHILOSOPHY 2. PHILOSOPHY AND THE UNITY OF LIFE 3. POETIC ENERGY Friedrich Schlegel (17...
Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) Emmanuel Levinas was a Jewish French philosopher. He grew up in Lithuania and received Jewish education, and moved to France to study philosophy in 1924. Drafted to...
THEMES ON THIS PAGE: 1. FIDELITY TO MYSELF 2. GENEROSITY AS LIGHT 3. PHILOSOPHICAL EXPERIENCE 4. BEING TOGETHER 5. ATTITUDE TO LIFE 6. DEEP IDEAS Gabriel Marcel (1...
THEMES ON THIS PAGE: 1. ALIENATION AT WORK2. ORIGIN OF CONSCIOUSNESS3. HUMAN NATURE Karl Marx (1818-1883) was a German philosopher and social revolutionary whose writings had a tremendous influence on...
JOHN STUART MILL (1806-1873) Higher and lower kinds of happiness John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) was a British philosopher who was very influential in the fields of Ethics, Political Philosophy, an...
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...
Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936) On Love Love comes from compasion Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936) was a Spanish philosopher, novelist and poet. After studying at the University of Madrid, he became a prof...
THEMES ON THIS PAGE: 1. CLEARINGS IN THE FOREST 2. WHY DO WRITERS WRITE? 3. EXPERIENCE OF LIFE 4. PHILOSOPHY STEEPS OUT OF LIFE Maria Zambrano (1904-1991) was a Spanish philosopher whose philosophy wa...
Simone Weil (1909-1943) On Love Simone Weil (1909-1943) was a Jewish-born French spiritual philosopher, and was also a political activist with communist and anarchist leanings. She studied philosophy ...
THEMES ON THIS PAGE: 1. EMPATHIC UNDERSTANDING 2. SHAPING MY BELIEF 3. 4. Edith Stein was a German philosopher, a student of Edmund Husserl, the father of Phenomenology. She wrote her PhD disser...
THEMES ON THIS PAGE: 1. SELF-CREATION2. THE DEATH OF GOD3. THE VIRTUE OF GIFT-GIVING Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) was a German philosopher and one of the most influential thinkers of modern times. ...
THEMES ON THIS PAGE: 1. SEXTUS EMPIRICUS 2. . PYRRHO 3. CARNEADES SKEPTICS PHILOSOPHERS The Skeptic school of philosophy was founded by the Greek philosopher Pyrrho in the 4th-3rd century BC...
Abraham Heschel (1907-1972) THEMES ON THIS PAGE: 1. THE INEFFABLE 2. CREATING HIGHER NEEDS 3. RADICAL AMAZEMENT Abraham Heschel (1907-1972) was a Jewish American thinker, rabbi, phil...
Erich Fromm (1900-1980) On Love I love the world through you Erich Fromm (1900-1980) was a German-born Jewish psychologist, psychiatrist, and philosopher. He did his doctorate in sociology, and then s...