Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

male, deceased (1900)
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher. His writing included critiques of religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy, and...
Henry James

Henry James

male, deceased (1916)
Henry James, OM (–), son of theologian Henry James Sr. and brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James, was an...
Confucius

Confucius

male
Confucius (lit. "Master Kung," 551 BCE - 479 BCE) was an esteemed Chinese thinker and social philosopher, whose teachings and philosophy have...
Marquis de Sade

Marquis de Sade

male, deceased (1814)
Donatien Alphonse-François de Sade (pronounced) was a French aristocrat and writer of philosophy-laden and often violent pornography. He was a p...
Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen

male, deceased (1906)
Henrik Johan Ibsen (March 20, 1828 - May 23, 1906) was a major Norwegian playwright largely responsible for the rise of modern realistic drama. He...
Mary Whitehouse

Mary Whitehouse

female, deceased (2001)
Mary Whitehouse CBE (13 June 1910 – 23 November 2001) was a British campaigner for her values of morality and decency, derived principally from he...
Hieronymus Bosch

Hieronymus Bosch

male, deceased (1516)
Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450 - August 9, 1516) was a prolific Early Netherlandish painter of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Many of his works...
David Gauthier

David Gauthier

male, 77 years old
David Gauthier (born 1932) is a Canadian-American philosopher best known for his neo-Hobbesian social contract (contractarian) theory of morality,...

Charles Curran

male, 75 years old
The Rev. Charles E. Curran (b. March 30, 1934) is a dissident Catholic moral theologian. He currently serves at Southern Methodist University in...
Anthony Comstock

Anthony Comstock

male, deceased (1915)
Anthony Comstock (March 7 1844 - September 21 1915) was a former United States Postal Inspector and politician dedicated to ideas of Victorian...