Jean-Paul Sartre My true self is my freedom to define myself Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) was an important French existentialist philosopher, politica...

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 that time belonged to Germany (but returned to France after World War I). He wrote his PhD thesis at the Sorbonne University, Paris, on the religious philosophy of Kant. At the same...

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. Together with his brother August Schlegel he was at the center of early German Romanticism. Romanticism was an 18th-19th century movement that appeared in Germany, Britain, France, and other countries. Its...