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 …
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 …
Immanuel Kant was born in Königsberg, Prussia, in 1724. He lived his entire life in Königsberg; studying physics and mathematics at the university fro …
Arthur Schopenhauer was born in Danzig, Prussia, in 1788. His early education was directed towards a career as a businessman rather than as an academi …
Thomas Hobbes was born in Wiltshire, England, in 1588, and was educated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford University, where he studied logic and Aristotelian p …
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 …
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 …
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1813. His father, a wealthy merchant and devout Christian, greatly influenced Kierkegaard, …
John Locke was born in Somerset, England, in 1632, and was educated at Westminster School, and then at Christ Church College, Oxford University, where …