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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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Philosophy
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: The Polymath Who Dreamed of a Universal Language
The Boy in the Library In 1652, a six-year-old boy lost his father. Friedrich Leibniz had been a professor of moral philosophy at the University of…
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Rationalism
Christian Wolff: The Architect of Reason Who Was Exiled for Thinking
The Midnight Flight The knock came at midnight. On a cold November evening in 1723, Prussian soldiers arrived at the home of Germany's most cel…
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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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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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