Ancient Greece
This philosopher famously remarked that "man is a political animal"
Aristotle
This early existentialist famously coined the term "leap of faith"
Kierkegaard
This classical formulation by Aristotle suggests that all things in the universe are due to
The Material Cause, the Formal Cause, the Efficient Cause, and the Final Cause
Xenophon is the second most famous student of this philosopher
Socrates
The categorical imperative is associated with this philosopher
Kant
This philosopher's last days were marked by a trial which was recorded by Plato in the dialogue Apologia
Socrates
This philosopher, though highly influential, had no formal training as a philosopher prior to writing his works
Friedrich Nietzsche
This formulation created by John Locke suggests that humans are naturally good in the state of nature
The Law of Nature
The skeptics originally emerged from this ancient and heavily important philosopher
Plato
It is argued by this philosopher that we enter into a contract where we transfer and authorize the use of our rights to violence to a sovereign for our own protection
Thomas Hobbes
This philosopher theorized that, although God exists, they have no say in human affairs
Epicurus
It is argued by this philosopher in an essay that, although the world may require of us to find meaning, we should always choose freedom
Albert Camus (The Rebel)
This famous formulation by Thomas Aquinas remains one of the most cited metaphysical proofs for God's existence
The Five Ways
Voltaire of the philosophes famously taught this social contract theorist
Jean Jacques Rousseau
This thinker theorized of hypothetical fundamental particles called "monads"
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
This presocratic philosopher is rumored to likely have never really existed
Pythagoras
This lecture tries to seperate existentialism from "quietism and dispair" by comparing it to this foundation of Akan morality
"Existetialism is a Humanism"
This idea, coined by Xeno, attempted to prove Parmenides's metaphysics
Paradox of Change
Socrates was pushed into philosophy after reading and being disgusted by the work of this philosopher
Anaxagoras
"Je pense donc je suis"
Rene Descartes
This presocratic philosopher famously remarked "sea water: good for fish, bad for men"
Heraclitus
It is argued by this philosopher that Nietzsche's famous line "God is Dead" is really about the death of metaphysics
Heidegger
This idea is one of the central questions of the philosophy of mind
Problem of consciousness
Thomas Hobbes was heavily influenced and existed in the same academic circles as this most important philosopher
Rene Descartes
This thinker is often considered the first feminist of the western canon
Mary Wollstonecraft