Arendt Famous As: Philosopher Nationality: German Birth Date: October 14, 1906 Died At Age: 69 Sun Sign: Libra Born In: Hanover, Germany Father: Paul Arendt Mother: Martha (Née Cohn) Spouses/Partners: Gün ther Anders, Heinrich Blücher Religion: Judaism Died On: December 4, 1975 Place Of Death: New York City
‘The Life of Mind’,
‘Origin of Totalitarianism’, On Hannah Arendt was born on October 14, 1906 Revolution’ and ‘The in Linden, Germany, to Martha and Paul Human Condition’ etc. Arendt, in a secular family of German Presenting quotable Jews. Arendt grew up in Königsberg and quotes and sayings by Berlin. Hannah Arendt on After graduating from high school in 1924, revolution, tyranny, she enrolled at the University of Marburg. conditions, think, There, she studied philosophy with Martin sad, truth, liar, Heidegger. Heidegger much like her was a efficiency, precept, German Jewish. best, worst, leader, admit, thoughts, The magnum opus of Hannah Arendt’s career beautiful, words, came in 1951 with the publication of her discovery, ideology, work ‘Origin of Totalitarianism’. Set at power, violence, the time of the rise of Nazi Germans and rules and more. devastating state of Jews, Arendt in her work argued that the political nature of such an event was not based on any precedent form of government but that it resulted in a new form of government that used terror to subjugate mass population. Famous As: Philosopher Nationality: British Birth Date: January 22, 1561 Died At Age: 65 Sun Sign: Aquarius Born In: Strand, London, England Father: Sir Nicholas Bacon Francis Bacon was born on January 22, 1561 Mother: Anne (Cooke) at York House near the Strand in London. He Bacon was born to Sir Nicholas Bacon and his Siblings: Anthony second wife Anne (Cooke) Bacon. His mother Bacon was the daughter of great humanist Anthony Spouse/Partner: Alice Cooke. It is believed that junior Bacon Barnham (M. 1606–1625) received education at home only, in the Died On: April 9, 1626 starting years of his life due to bad Place Of health. He received tuitions from John Death: Highgate, Walsall who was a graduate of Oxford with a London, England strong bending towards Puritanism. On April 5, 1573, Bacon gained admission in Trinity “Some books should be College, Cambridge at the age of 12. He tasted, some devoured, lived there for three years with his older brother, Anthony under the personal but only a few should guardianship of Dr John Whitgift, future be chewed and digested Archbishop of Canterbury. thoroughly” - Francis
The three chief goals of Bacon were to
uncover truth, to serve his country, and to serve his church. Bacon looked further to these by attempting to get a prestigious post. He also applied for a post in the court through his uncle; Lord Burghley in 1580 which he believed would allow him to pursue a life of learning but his application was rejected. Following two years, he worked at Gray’s Inn, only to be admitted as an outer barrister in 1582. He took his seat in the parliament for Melcombe in Dorset in 1584 and afterwards for Taunton in 1586. This was the time when Bacon started writing on the condition of church parties and also on the topic of philosophical reform in the lost tract, Temporis Partus Maximus. Hannah Arendt Francis Bacon ‘The Second Sex’ remains her best philosophical work and is till date considered an important subject in dealing with oppression and liberation of women. The Mandarins is also considered as one of her most successful books and fetched her highest literary award of France, the ‘Prix Goncourt’.
She was ready to deny the existence of space and
time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
Simone de Beauvoir was born in Paris to Georges
Bertrand de Beauvoir and Françoise Beauvoir on January 9, 1908. Her father was a legal secretary and her mother was the daughter of a wealthy banker. Her sister Helena was two years younger. Her family lost most of their fortune after the First World War. Even though she was highly religious and God loving since childhood and intended to be a nun, she faced crisis of faith at the age of 14 and from then on remained an atheist throughout her life. In 1925 she cleared baccalauréat exams in philosophy and mathematics. Also Known As: Simone- Famous As: Philosopher Lucie-Ernestine-Marie Nationality: AmericanBirth Bertrand De Beauvoir, Date: October 20, 1859 Castor Famous As: Writer Died At Age: 92 Nationality: French Sun Sign: Libra Birth Date: January Height: 1.76 M 9, 1908 Born In: Burlington, Died At Age: 78 Vermont, United States Sun Sign: Capricorn Father: Archibald Sprague Born In: Paris Father: Georges Bertrand Dewey De Beauvoir Mother: Lucina Artemisia Mother: Françoise Brasseur Rich Dewey Siblings: Hélène De Children: Gordon Dewey, Beauvoir Frederick Archibald Dewey, Spouse/Partner: Jean-Paul Evelyn Dewey, Morris Sartre Children: Sylvie Le Bon-De Dewey, Jane Mary Dewey, Beauvoir Lucy Alice Dewey Religion: Atheism Died On: June 1, 1952 Died On: April 14, 1986 John Dewey was a famous American philosopher, psychologist and educational reformer. He was also the founder of functional psychology and one of the earliest developers of philosophy of pragmatism. His ideas made significant impact in social and educational reforms. Apart from writing primarily in publication works, he also wrote about many topics including experience, nature, art, logic, inquiry, democracy, and ethics.
John Dewey was born on October 20, 1859 in
Burlington, Vermont. His father, Archibald Sprague Dewey, left his grocery business during the Civil War to become a quartermaster in the Vermont Regiment. Afterwards, he opened a tobacco shop, running it successfully to provide his family with financial security and comfort.
His mother, Lucina Artemisia nee Rich, was almost
twenty years younger than her husband. Daughter of a wealthy farmer, she was a devout Calvinist, possessing a stern sense of morality. She was stricter with her children than her easy going husband and made sure that they have college education. Among the forty books written by John Dewey, ‘Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education’ is his first major work. Published in 1916, it tries to synthesize and expand the educational philosophies of two major philosophers, Plato and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. 'Human Nature and Conduct': An Introduction to Social Psychology’ is another of his important works. Published in 1922, it tries to establish that understanding different types of habit is the key to social psychology. 'Art and Experience', published in 1934 is another of his major works. Dealing in aesthetics, the work has been found to influence a number of disciplines including the new media. Opposing the theories of Kant, Dewey tries to establish that to understand art one must start with daily events and scenes. In 1899, Dewey was elected president of the American Psychological Association. He received honorary degree from several universities including the University of Oslo (1946), University of Pennsylvania (1946), Yale University (1951) and University of Rome (1951). In 1943, he received Copernicus citation.
“Education is not preparation for
life; education is life itself.” Simone de John Famous As: Philosopher Nationality: British Birth Date: July 28, 1902 Died At Age: 92
Karl Sun Sign: Leo
Born In: Vienna Father: Simon Siegmund Carl Popper
Popper Mother: Jenny Schiff
Spouse/Partner: Josephi ne Anna Henninger Died On: September 17, 1994 Place Of Death: London The Logic of Scientific Discovery The Poverty of Historicism The Open Society and its Enemies Conjectures and Refutations Objective Knowledge Unended Quest The Self and its Brain o The Postscript to The Logic of Scientific Discovery, Volumes I, II & IIIRealism and the Aim of Science o The Open Universe Quantum Theory and the Schism in Physics Karl Popper was born on 28th July 1902 in Vienna. His grandparents were Jewish, but their family converted into Lutheranism before he was born. His father Simon Siegmund Carl Popper was a lawyer by profession, who also. had a great interest in classics and philosophy. His father was responsible for developing his interest in social and political issues. His mother, Jenny Schiff was of Silesian and Hungarian descent. Popper’s family made a rapid social climb in the Viennese Society and in just few years of their establishment in Vienna, his father became a legal partner of Vienna's liberal mayor Raimond Grübl. When the mayor
Karl Popper, also known as Sir Karl Raimund
Popper, was an Austrian-born British Philosopher and a professor at the London School of Economics. He is considered as one of the greatest philosophers of science of the 20th century. He wrote extensively on social and political philosophy. His principle contribution to philosophy is his rejection to inductive method in the empirical sciences. Popper won many awards and honors in his field, the long list includes the Lippincott Award of the American Political Science Association, the Sonning Prize, and fellowships in the Royal Society, British Academy, London School of Economics, King's College London, Darwin College Cambridge, and Charles University, Prague. Popper was the president of the Aristotelian Society from 1958 to 1959. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1965. His important works include “The Logic of Scientific Discovery”, “The Poverty of Historicism” and “The Open Society and Its Enemies”.