Benjamin Franklin. David Martin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Benjamin Franklin Biography and Legacy Benjamin Franklin is one of the most remarkable figures in American history. Known as a Founding Father, inventor, writer, philosopher,...
Dante Alighieri. Unidentified painter, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Dante Alighieri Biography and Legacy Dante Alighieri was a Florentine poet, thinker, and philosopher whose masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, reshaped world literature. By writing in...
Swami Vivekananda. Thomas Harrison, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Swami Vivekananda Biography, Philosophy, and Legacy Swami Vivekananda was an Indian Hindu monk, philosopher, and spiritual leader who played a key role in introducing Indian...
Seneca. Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Seneca Biography, Philosophy and Legacy Seneca the Younger, also known as Lucius Annaeus Seneca, was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and advisor to the...
Niccolò Machiavelli. Santi di Tito, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Niccolò Machiavelli was an Italian Renaissance political philosopher, writer, diplomat, and historian, best known for his work “The Prince” (Il Principe), written in 1513,...
Montesquieu. After Jacques-Antoine Dassier, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Few thinkers have had as much impact on the legal and political fields as the famous French political philosopher Montesquieu. Montesquieu’s writings have influenced constitutions...
Jiddu Krishnamurti. Albert Witzel, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. India is a land not short of its own eminent philosophers and spiritual and religious teachers. In fact, I will even go as far as...
Zeno of Citium. Image by Dimitris Vetsikas from Pixabay Zeno of Citium Philosophy and Legacy We have all heard of Stoicism somehow or somewhere or the other. We have heard of the famous Stoic...
Plutarch. National Gallery of Art, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Plutarch Biography and Legacy Few have heard of the name Plutarch. And even if one has somehow heard of him, they most probably do not...
Albert Camus. Studio Harcourt, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Albert Camus Biography and Legacy Albert Camus was an Algerian-born French writer, journalist, and philosopher, whose works have contributed to the rise of the philosophical...