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Aristotle: The Man Who Knew Everything Western Philosophy

Aristotle: The Man Who Knew Everything

The Student Who Defied His Teacher In the autumn of 367 BCE, an eighteen-year-old man arrived in Athens with nothing but a small bag of belongings…

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Socrates: The Gadfly of Athens Who Drank Hemlock for Truth Western Philosophy

Socrates: The Gadfly of Athens Who Drank Hemlock for Truth

The Man Who Never Wrote a Word He never wrote a single book. He never founded a school. He never accepted payment for his teaching. He was poor, ug…

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Plato: The Philosopher Who Shaped Western Thought Western Philosophy

Plato: The Philosopher Who Shaped Western Thought

The Cup of Hemlock In the year 399 BC, a seventy-year-old man with a snub nose and a prodigious belly sat in an Athenian prison cell, awaiting his …

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Immanuel Kant: The man who never left his city but changed the World Philosophy

Immanuel Kant: The man who never left his city but changed the World

The Clockwork Professor He never traveled more than ten miles from his hometown. He never married, never had children, and lived his entire life by…

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Confucius: The Teacher Who Taught the World How to Live History of Philosophy

Confucius: The Teacher Who Taught the World How to Live

"What You Do Not Want Done to Yourself, Do Not Do to Others" He was born into poverty, lost his father as a child, and was rejected by th…

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