IMAGE LIBRARY

Pictures of well-known thinkers help humanize the practice of philosophy, reminding us of its eminently dialogical character. These are not merely "talking heads," but individuals with very human concerns about value and knowledge working in specific historical contexts which shaped the aims of their thinking. All the images found in this and the following page are used with the author's understanding that they are not copyrighted; if any image as used here is in violation, please contact Kevin S. Decker at [email protected].

Thinkers of the ancient world Medieval and early modern thinkers 18th to early 20th century philosophers Contemporary philosophers

Thinkers of the ancient world

Aristotle Greece b. 384 bce d. 322 bce [More on Aristotle]

Plato Greece b. 327 bce d. 247 bce [More on Plato]

Plotinus Egypt b. 205 ce d. 270 ce [More on Plotinus]

Socrates Greece b. 470 bce d. 399 bce [More on Socrates]

Medieval and early modern thinkers

St. Thomas Aquinas Italy, France b. 1224 d. 1274 [More about Aquinas]

St. Anselm of Canterbury Britain b.1033 d.1109 [More about Anselm]

St. Augustine Italy, N. Africa b. d. [More about Augustine]

Sir Francis Bacon Britain b. 1561 d. 1626 [More about Bacon]

Rene Descartes France b. 1596 d. 1650 [More about Descartes]

Thomas Hobbes Britain b. 1588 d. 1679 [More about Hobbes]

Gottfried Leibniz Germany b. 1646 d. 1716 [More about Leibniz]

John Locke Britain b. 1632 d. 1704 [More about Locke]

Michel de Montaigne France b. 1643 d. 1727 [More about Montaigne]

Isaac Newton Britain b. 1643 d. 1727 [More about Newton]

Blaise Pascal France b. 1623 d. 1662 [More about Pascal]

Baruch Spinoza The Netherlands b. 1632 d. 1677 [More about Spinoza]