John Locke

John Locke

male, deceased (1704)
John Locke was an English philosopher. Locke is considered the first of the British Empiricists, but is equally important to social contract...
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

male, deceased (1778)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, (June 28, 1712 - July 2, 1778) was a Genevan philosopher of the Enlightenment whose political ideas influenced the French...
Denis Diderot

Denis Diderot

male, deceased (1784) (NANTES, France)
Denis Diderot was a French philosopher and writer. He was a prominent figure in the Enlightenment, and editor-in-chief of the famous...
Carolyn Merchant

Carolyn Merchant

female
Carolyn Merchant (born circa 1936 in Rochester, New York, USA) is an American ecofeminist philosopher most famous for her theory on the 'Death of...
Yekaterina Romanovna Vorontsova-Dashkova

Yekaterina Romanovna Vorontsova-Dashkova

female, deceased (1810)
Princess Yekaterina Romanovna Vorontsova-Dashkova (March 17, 1743-January 4, 1810, though her memoirs list her birth date as 1744, they are...
Antoine Court de Gébelin

Antoine Court de Gébelin

male, deceased (1784)
Antoine Court who named himself Antoine Court de Gébelin was the former Protestant pastor, born at Nimes ("Encyclopædia Britannica"), who in...

Alexander Munro III

male
Alexander Munro III followed his father and grandfather in becoming professor of anatomy at Edinburgh University. Alexander's great-grandfather was...

Inoue Enryō

male, deceased (1919)
founder of Toyo University, was a Japanese educator, philosopher and Buddhist. Inoue was Japan's first scientific investigator of anomalous...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

male
Rousseau lived for thirty years with an uneducated seamstress named Thérèse Lavasseur, whom he met in 1745. They had five children, all of whom Ro...