PROPONENT OF

PHILOSOPHY
 RATIONALISM

 the first figure of rationalism is Descartes.

 Reme Descartes was born in La Haye, France, 31 march 1596
 mother : Jeanne Brochard
 father : Joachim
 he is philosopher, mathematician, and scientist
 his best known philosopical statement is "i think, therefore i am"
 he died on 11 February 1650
POSITIVISM

 Isidore Marie Auguste François Xavier Comte was a French

philosopher and writer who formulated the doctrine of positivism.
 Auguste Comte was born in Montpellier Hérault on 19 January
1798. Comte died in Paris on 5 September 1857 from stomach
cancer and was buried in the famous Père Lachaise Cemetery.
 MATERIALISM

Democritus :
 460 – 370 BC ( 90 Years old)
 Born in Abdera, Greece
 Known as the laughing professor

Lucretius :
 99 BC -55 BC
 The prefigure materialists and contributed towards the classic
formulation of materialism.
 He wrote ‘’De Rerum Natura’’ (The Natura Of Things)
CRITISM

 Immannuel Kant was a prominent figure of the criticism of being

born in Konigsberg in East Prussia on 22 April 1724. He died in his
hometown on 28 February 1804 at the age of 79 years
 In 1740, Kant studied at the University of Königsberg where he
studied philosophy, mathematics, and natural sciences.
 Immanuel kant worked as a lecturer and he experts in physical
geography.
 RENAISSANCE

 Thomas More was born on 7 February 1478 in London. Thomas

More never articulates in one place his political philosophy, but
throughout his writings

 Thomas More is best remembered in philosophy for his classic

book Utopia, and its description of a remote and idealized
society

 He died on 6 July 1535.

EXISTENTIALISM

 Karl Jaspers
 GERMANY PHILOSOPHER – EXISTENTIALISM
 Was born in Oldenburg, German on 23 February 1883
 Died in 26 February 1969 on
PHENOMENOLOGY

 Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl was a German philosopher who

concentrate school of Phenomenology, born on Austrian (08 April
1859) and died on German 27 April 1938 (79 age). Husserl studied
mathematic under the tutelage of Karl Weierstrass, and
philosophy under Franz Brentano and Carl Stumpf. Husserl lived
the quiet of a German philosopher, marked by the publication of
his 2 Theses:
 In 1883, Beiträge zur Variationsrechnung (Contributions to the
Calculus of Variations)
 In 1887, Über den Begriff der Zahl (On the Concept of Number).
THOMISME

 Santo Thomas Aquinas

 Born 1225
 Roccasecca,kingdom of sicily
 Death 7 march 1274
 Cistercian monastery of Fossanova,Italy
POST-STRUCTURALISM

 Jacques Derrida was born July 15, 1930 – October 9, 2004 was an
Algerian-born French-Jewish philosopher best known for
developing a form of semiotic analysis known as deconstruction,
which he discussed in numerous texts, and developed in the
context of phenomenology.
 His works:
 La voix et le phenomène (1967)
 L'écriture et la différance (1967)
 De la grammatologie (1967)
 Marges de la philosophie (1972)
 EMPIRICISM

 Born : 384 BC,Stagira, Chalcidian League

 Died : 322 BC (aged approx. 62),Euboea, Macedonian Empire
 Founder of World’s first great library!
 Teacher of Alexander the great

 Born : David’s Home,7 May NS [26

April OS] 1711,Edinburgh, Scotland, Great Britain
 Died : 25 August 1776 (aged 65)
Edinburgh, Scotland, Great Britain
 He became a recluse, and devoted ten years of his life to reading
and writing.
 INTUISM

 Henri-Louis Bergson (French: [bɛʁksɔn];18 October 1859 – 4 January 1941)

was a French-Jewish philosopher who was influential in the tradition of
continental philosophy, especially during the first half of the 20th century until
the Second World War.
 Bergson is known for his arguments that processes of immediate experience
and intuition are more significant than abstract rationalism and science for
understanding reality.
 PRAGMATISM

 Charles Sanders Pierce ( September 10, 1839 – April 19, 1914 ) in

Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. Was an
American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist
who is sometimes known as "the father of pragmatism".