Name Dates Brief Bio Nationality Area Interests Major Work(s) Video
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
 
1744-1829  biology evolution Philosophie zoologique,
Joseph
de Maistre
1753-1821 politics social hierarchy, monarchy Letters from a Savoyard Royalist
Comte de
Saint-Simon
1760-1825 politics socialism Lettres d'un habitant de Genève, Du système industriel
Germaine
de Staël
1766-1817 politics salonniere, novelist The Influence of Literature upon Society
G.W.F.
Hegel
1770-1831 philosophy epistemology, aesthetics, history, religion The Phenomenology of Spirit,
The Science of Logic
Arthur
Schopenhauer
1788-1860 philosophy epistemology, atheism, ethics The World as Will and Representation
Auguste
Comte
1798-1857 social philosophy utopian socialism, positivism Religion of Humanity
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
1803-1882 essayist transcendentalism, individualism Essays: First Series,
Essays: Second Series
Alexis
de Tocqueville
1805-1859 politics, history living standards, social conditions Democracy in America
John Stuart
Mill
1806-1873 social, political theory utilitarianism, liberty The Subjection of Women,
On Liberty
Pierre-Joseph
Proudhon
1809/1865 politics, economics anarchism Property is theft!
Charles
Darwin
1809-1882 naturalist, geologist, biologist evolution On the Origin of Species,
The Descent of Man
Søren
Kierkegaard
1813-1855 Politics, religion Christianity, morality, ethics Either/Or
Henry David
Thoreau
1817-1862 politics abolition, injustice Civil Disobedience