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Aristotle was born in Stagira, northern Greece, in 384 BC. He was educated at, and then taught at Plato’s Academy, where he remained some 20 years.Bef …

Francis Bacon was born in London, England, in 1561. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge University, Bacon was elected to the House of Commons in 15 …

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was born in Leipzig, in what is now Germany, in 1646. He was educated at the universities of Leipzig, where his father was P …

Baruch Spinoza was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in 1632. The son of Spanish-Portuguese Jews, he began to question the validity of the instructi …

George Berkeley was born in County Kilkenny, Ireland, in 1685. He was educated at Kilkenny College and, from 1700, Trinity College, Dublin, where he b …

Johann Gottlieb Fichte was born near Bautzen, in what is now Germany, in 1762. The son of a ribbon weaver, Fichte's early education at the Pforta …

David Hume was born near Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1711. Hume displayed great academic ability from a young age and, at the age of 12, went to the Unive …

Socrates was born in Athens, Greece, in 469 BC. His early education encompassed literature, music and gymnastics; and was followed by a study of rheto …

Classic App Audiobooks make available the written works of the best known philosophers in audiobook format, allowing people to acquaint themselves wit …

Thomas Aquinas was born at his family castle of Roccasecca near the Italian town of Aquino, in about 1225. He was educated at the Benedictine monaster …