Philosophers Educational Posters & Prints, pg 2/4

Page 2 philosophers posters & prints - Chrysippus, Cicero, Comte, Confucius, Democritus, Descartes, Diogenes, Eramus, Euclid, Francis of Assisi, Geber, Hegel, Heraclitus, Herder, Hobbes, Hume, Kant, Kierkegaard, Locke, Martin Luther.

Statue of Chrysippus (c.280-207 BC) the Greek philosopher (marble)
Giclee Print
b. 280 BC, Greece
d. 207 BC,

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Cicero Marble Bust
Giclee Print
b. 1-3-106 BC; Aprium
d. 12-7-43 BC; Formia

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Portrait of Auguste Comte,
French philosopher,
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b. 1-15-1798; France
d. 9-5-1857;

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Confucius, Giclee Print

Confusius is a much celebrated Chinese philosopher and teacher. Perhaps his greatest teaching is "never impose on others what you would not choose for yourself". Jesuit missionary to China, Matteo Ricci, and Chinese scholar Xu Guangqi, were the first to translate Confucianism test into a western language.
b. 9-28-551 BC; China
d. 479 BCE

Democritus 1692,
Antoine Coypel, Giclee Print
b. c. 460 BC; Greece
d. c. 370 BC

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Portrait of Rene Descartes
c.1649, Frans Halls,
Giclee Print
b. 3-31-1596; France
d. 2-11-1650

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• mathematician posters

Diogenes by Parmigianino,
Giclee Print,
b. c. 460 BC; Greece

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Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, 1526, Giclee Print

Desiderius Erasmus
b. 10-27-1466; Rotterdam
d. 7-12-1536; Basel

Desiderius Erasmus was a humanist - a teacher of grammar, rhetoric, moral philosophy, poetry and history as studied via classical authors, and a theologian.

• The Erasmus Reader

Page of Text with Geometrical Figures, from 'Geometry' by Euclid

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The Alchemist Geber Illustration from 'Science and Literature in the Middle Ages, Giclee Print
b. c. 721, d. c. 815

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Geber was the Latinized name of Abu Musa Jabir ibn Hayyan, an Islamic alchemist, philosopher and astronomer.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Portrait, Giclee Print
b. 8-27-1770; Germany
d. 11-14-1831

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Heraclitus of Ephesus,
Giclee Print
b. c. 535 BC; Greece
d. c. 475 BC

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Johann Gottfried Herder,
Giclee Print
b. 8-25-1744; East Prussia
d. 12-18-1803

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• Selected Writings on Aesthetics, Johann Gottfried Herder

Thomas Hobbes Portrait,
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b. 4-5-1588; England
d. 12-4-1679

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David Hume, Scottish Philosopher & Historian, Giclee Print

David Hume, Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian, is considered one of the most important figures in the history of Western philosophy.
b. 4-26-1711; Scotland
d. 8-25-1776

• motivational poster with Hume quote - “The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.”
• book - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (The Clarendon Edition of the Works of David Hume)

Portrait of Emmanuel Kant,
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b. 4-22-1724; East Prussia
d. 2-12-1804

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"The active faculty of the human mind...the capacity of a being to act in conformity with his own representations is what constitutes the life of such a being." • Metaphysics of Morals

Soren Aabye Kierkegaard, Danish Philosopher, Giclee Print

Søren Kierkegaard, philosopher and theologian, is noted for his search for meaning expressd in his ideas of "subjectivity" and "leap of faith". Kierkegaard, who suffered from melancholia, said, "I saved my life by telling stories." In his life time Kierkegaard was rideculed for his attacks on the political and materialism of the State Christian Church of Denmark.
b. 5-5-1813; Denmark
d. 11-1-1855; Copenhagen

• book - Soren Kierkegaard: A Biography

John Locke,
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b. 8-29-1632; England
d. 10-28-1704

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John Locke defined a person as "a thinking intelligent Being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider it self as it self, the same thinking thing in different times and places; which it does only by that consciousness, which is inseparable from thinking, and as it seems to me essential to it"... (Essay on Human Understanding, Book 2, Chapter 27, Section 9).

Martin Luther Giclee Print Lucas Cranach

Martin Luther
b. 11-11-1483; Germany
d. 2-18-1546

Martin Luther was a monk and theologian whose invitation "Out of love and zeal for truth and the desire to bring it to light" to publically discuss Ninety-Five Theses of reforming the Catholic Church, changed the course of Western civilization.