Great Thinkers

This is my journey through the great intellectual traditions, one great thinker at a time. By systematically reading the works of history’s most influential minds, I aim to understand not just what they thought, but how they arrived at that, and how their ideas have shaped our shared intellectual discourse.

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Lao Tzu
600 BCE — 400 BCE

Lao Tzu

No books added yet.

Confucius
551 BCE — 479 BCE

Confucius

Book cover for The Virtues
Socrates
470 BCE — 399 BCE

Socrates

Book cover for Apology of Socrates
Book cover for Meno
Book cover for Socrates
Book cover for Symposium
Book cover for The Republic
Plato
428 BCE — 348 BCE

Plato

Book cover for Critias
Book cover for Meno
Book cover for Plato
Book cover for Timaeus
Book cover for Ethics
Aristoteles
384 BCE — 322 BCE

Aristoteles

Book cover for The Virtues
Epicurus
341 BCE — 270 BCE

Epicurus

Book cover for Ethics
Seneca
4 BCE — 65 CE

Seneca

Book cover for Letters from a Stoic
Epictetus
50 CE — 138 CE

Epictetus

Book cover for Enchiridion
Marcus Aurelius
121 CE — 180 CE

Marcus Aurelius

Book cover for Meditations
Augustine of Hippo
384 CE — 430 CE

Augustine of Hippo

Book cover for The Virtues
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
480 CE — 524 CE

Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius

No books added yet.

Avicenna (Ibn Sina)
980 CE — 1037 CE

Avicenna (Ibn Sina)

Book cover for Avicenna and Medieval Muslim Philosophy
Ibn Rushd
1126 CE — 1198 CE

Ibn Rushd

Book cover for The Virtues
Maimonides
1135 CE — 1204 CE

Maimonides

Book cover for The Virtues
Thomas Aquinas
1225 CE — 1274 CE

Thomas Aquinas

Book cover for The Virtues
Dante Alighieri
1265 CE — 1321 CE

Dante Alighieri

No books added yet.

Michel de Montaigne
1533 CE — 1592 CE

Michel de Montaigne

No books added yet.

Francis Bacon
1561 CE — 1626 CE

Francis Bacon

No books added yet.

Thomas Hobbes
1588 CE — 1679 CE

Thomas Hobbes

Book cover for Ethics
René Descartes
1596 CE — 1650 CE

René Descartes

No books added yet.

Baruch Spinoza
1632 CE — 1677 CE

Baruch Spinoza

No books added yet.

John Locke
1632 CE — 1704 CE

John Locke

No books added yet.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
1646 CE — 1716 CE

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

No books added yet.

George Berkeley
1685 CE — 1753 CE

George Berkeley

No books added yet.

Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
1694 CE — 1778 CE

Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)

Book cover for Candide
David Hume
1711 CE — 1776 CE

David Hume

Book cover for Ethics
Book cover for The Virtues
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1712 CE — 1778 CE

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Book cover for Ethics
Adam Smith
1723 CE — 1790 CE

Adam Smith

Book cover for Ethics
Immanuel Kant
1724 CE — 1804 CE

Immanuel Kant

Book cover for Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
Book cover for Ethics
Book cover for The Virtues
Mary Wollstonecraft
1759 CE — 1797 CE

Mary Wollstonecraft

No books added yet.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
1770 CE — 1831 CE

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Book cover for Ethics
Arthur Schopenhauer
1788 CE — 1804 CE

Arthur Schopenhauer

No books added yet.

John Stuart Mill
1806 CE — 1873 CE

John Stuart Mill

Book cover for The Virtues
Søren Kierkegaard
1813 CE — 1855 CE

Søren Kierkegaard

No books added yet.

Karl Marx
1818 CE — 1883 CE

Karl Marx

Book cover for Ethics
Friedrich Nietzsche
1844 CE — 1900 CE

Friedrich Nietzsche

Book cover for Beyond Good and Evil
Book cover for Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Book cover for Ethics
Siegmund Freud
1856 CE — 1939 CE

Siegmund Freud

Book cover for Ethics
Bertrand Russell
1872 CE — 1970 CE

Bertrand Russell

Book cover for The Problems of Philosophy
Carl Jung
1875 CE — 1961 CE

Carl Jung

No books added yet.

Ludwig Wittgenstein
1889 CE — 1951 CE

Ludwig Wittgenstein

No books added yet.

Martin Heidegger
1889 CE — 1976 CE

Martin Heidegger

No books added yet.

Ayn Rand
1905 CE — 1982 CE

Ayn Rand

No books added yet.

Jean-Paul Sartre
1905 CE — 1980 CE

Jean-Paul Sartre

No books added yet.

Simone de Beauvoir
1908 CE — 1986 CE

Simone de Beauvoir

No books added yet.

Michel Foucault
1926 CE — 1984 CE

Michel Foucault

Book cover for The History of Sexuality, Volume 1
Judith Jarvis Thompson
1929 CE — 2020 CE

Judith Jarvis Thompson

Book cover for Ethics
Jacques Derrida
1930 CE — 2004 CE

Jacques Derrida

No books added yet.

Derek Parfit
1942 CE — 2017 CE

Derek Parfit

No books added yet.

Sam Harris
1967 CE

Sam Harris

Book cover for Free Will
Book cover for Lying
Book cover for Waking Up