John Locke

“To love truth for truth’s sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world,…

John Rawls

"A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or revised if it is untrue; likewise…

Anaximander

For him, the only substance which could explain all the opposites, is what he called "APEIRON"…

Thales of Miletus

Thales appears to have been the first of the Greek scholars to attempt to explain natural…

Plato

defines "the good" as an unchanging "form" that cannot be comprehended by sight or other senses.…

Empedocles

Empedocles | He believe that matter was held together by a fundamental force of the universe…

Socrates

His greatest contribution to philosophy was to move intellectual pursuits away from the focus on 'physical…

Søren Kierkegaard

"The individual sees the world he wills to see, and this depends upon the values he…

Pythagoras of Samos

PYTHAGOREANS believed that everything could be reduced to numbers: The whole universe had been built using…

Heraclitus of Ephesus

Heraclitus | if we know that change is the only constant thing in our life, then…