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Thomas Aquinas

Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225 – 1274) was a Roman Catholic priest in the Dominican Order known for his philosophy and theology work. “Aquinas” indicates his residence – not his surname – so he is sometimes referred to as Thomas. Thomas is the father of the Thomistic school of philosophy and theology. He was the foremos....[more]

Thomas Hobbes

Immanuel Kant

John Locke

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Peter Abelard

Biography & Autobiography, Literary Collections, Philosophy

Peter Abelard is considered to be the founder of the University of Paris. He studied under the nominalist Roscelin de Compiegne and the realist William of Champeaux. Disagreement with William led Abelard to withdraw to the provinces and set up his own school at Melun, in northern France, in 1104. He returned to Paris i....[more]

Hadley Arkes

Philosophy, Political Science

David Armitage

Law, Political Science

Jean Barbeyrac

Law

Carl L. Becker

Biography & Autobiography, History

Few historians of the United States have written as well as Carl Becker, Cornell University's famous professor of modern European history. Becker was born in Iowa and studied at the University of Wisconsin, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1907. His study The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers (1932), is ....[more]