Schopenhauer 叔本华 Schopenhauer was the son of a wealthy merchant, Heinrich Floris Schopenhauer, and his wife, Johanna, who was a famous local writer. In 1793,when Danzig came under Prussian sovereignty, they moved to the free city of Hamburg....
Friedrich Hegel 弗里德里希黑格尔 Hegel was born in Stuttgart on August 27,1770, the son of an official. Urged by his pietist father to enter the clergy, he registered in the Tubingen Lutheran seminary in 1788. A fair student, Hegel generally...
Immanuel Kant 伊曼努尔康德 Immanuels early childhood seems to have been idyllic. The family was rather well off. The parents got along and loved their son. Father appears to have been a gentle and hardworking man, while mother, who took care of...
David Hume 大卫休谟 Hume attended the University of Edinburgh at the unusually early age of twelve at a time when fourteen was normal. At first he considered a career in law, but came to have, in his words, an insurmountable aversion to everythin...
Rene Descartes 勒内笛卡儿 Rene Descartes was a French philosopher and writer who spent most of his adult life in the Dutch Republic. He has been dubbed the Father of Modem Philosophy,and much subsequent Western philosophy is a response to his...
Francis Bacon 弗朗西斯培根 Francis Bacons words knowledge is power are well-known to us. This talented boy is so clever that he entered the Trinity College, Cambridge, at the age of twelve and lived for three years there with his older brother....
Aristotle 亚里士多德 Aristotle was bom in Stageira, Chalcidice, in 384 BC. His father was the personal physician to King Amyntas of Macedon. Aristotle was trained and educated as a member of the aristocracy. At about the age of eighteen, he went...
Plato 柏拉图 One day, Plato asked his teacher, What is love? How can I find it? 柏拉图有一天问老师苏格拉底:什么是爱情?我如何找到它? His teacher answered, There is a vast wheat field in front. Walk forward without turn...
Socrates 苏格拉底 Socratic irony 苏格拉底的伪装 Socrates is talking to Hippias of Elis, a travelling sophist who sets up as a professional wise man,taking money for lessons in private and public rhetoric, and managing public business him...
Zhuangzi 庄子 Zhuangzi was probably the poorest among the philosophers before the Qin Dynasty. During the difficult times, according to his disciples, he had to earn his living by making straw sandals and even borrowed food from others when he did...