European Oh No, ROUSSEAU! "I propose to show my fellows a man as NATURE made him… and this man is MYSELF!"
author NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI: Undercover Boss! "In taking a state a conqueror must arrange to commit ALL his cruelties at ONCE, so as not to have to recur to them every day."
academic THOMAS HOBBES: Navigating The Leviathan! Without civil society…humanity would fall into "War of All AGAINST All."
European AUGUSTE COMTE: High Priest of Science! Comte believed that the wave of instability and violence sweeping through Europe in the early 19th century was a direct result of religion's recent ASS-WHOOPING by science!
academic HEGEL & SCHOPENHAUER: Toxic Fanboys! Once upon a time there lived two professors and they both though IMMANUEL KANT was the greatest philosopher EVER!
academic DAVID HUME: The Empirical Strikes Back! Even when we THINK we observe cause-and-effect in ACTION…DO we, really?
European ST THOMAS AQUINAS: Apetite For Doctrine! Like a LOT of parents, the Count of Aquino was less than THRILLED when he learned that his son had switches MAJORS midway through COLLEGE.
European The (Mostly) Saintly ST AUGUSTINE! Aurelius Augustine was raised a CHRISTIAN by his devout mother, MONICA, but her faith didn't stick - at FIRST!
omnipotence for dummies KIERKEGAARD: Enemy Of The Church! After repeated, vehement attacks on Denmark's state religion the most popular guy in Copenhagen was most definitely NOT Soren Kierkegaard… but he was having the time of his life!
omnipotence for dummies GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ: Living His Best Life! Gottfried Leibniz (co-inventor of Calculus) believed he had proven the existence of God through a rather complicated cosmology…
omnipotence for dummies BARUCH SPINOZA: Clarity Is King! …had a poetically appropriate day job for a philosopher - he crafted glass lenses for telescopes so the heavens might be better viewed.
religion GEORGE BERKELEY: If He Sees It, It Must Be Real! …was an Irish Anglican bishop who didn't believe in the existence of matter. Instead, he said: "To be is to be perceived."
omnipotence for dummies Featured RENE DESCARTES: He Thinks, Therefore He IS! We're proud to present the FATHER of Modern Philosophy…
author Featured MARY SHELLEY: Teen Mom Invents Sci-Fi! Mary struggled to come up with a ghost story of her own…and her whole short life up until that point had been one of disappointing writers.