My true self is my freedom to define myself Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) was an important French existentialist philosopher, political activist, novelist and playwright. In his student years, while studying philosophy and other fields at École Normale Supérieure, he met Simone de Beauvoir, who became his life-long companion and lover. The two maint...
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 (1772-1829) – whose full name was Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel – was a leading philosopher of German Romanticism, as well as a poet and a scholar. Tog...
Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) THEMES ON THIS PAGE: 1. REVERENCE FOR LIFE 2. THE WILL TO LIVE 3.THE SOCIAL MISSION OF PHILOSOPHY Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) was a French-German thinker, theologian, musician, and medical doctor, who became famous for his humanitarian activities in West Africa. He was born in Alsace, which at ...
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, and flourished for several centuries alongside Stoicism, Epicureanism, and New-Platonism, all of which regarded philosophy as a practical activity a...
Solución al enigma de los Filósofos de la Antigüedad sobre la buena vida: 7 filósofos de la antigüedad son transportados al siglo XXI y resultan encontrándose en un club nocturno de moda: Aristipo, Aristóteles, Epicuro, Marco Aurelio, Platón, Protágoras y Sócrates. Entre ellos se desarrolla la siguiente conversación. ¿Puedes ident...
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Solution to Puzzle #12: We received correct solutions from Maurizio Bisogno (Ireland) and Sebastian Drobny (Austria).Good job, Maurizio and Sebastian! .Solución al enigma del dragón: Recibimos respuestas correctas de Jose Antonio Fajula, Jean M M, Daniel Víquez, Paula Juliana Gonzalez Lasso, Francesca Battistoni, David Alejandro Serafin Martínez, R...
