Philosophers Educational Posters & Prints, pg 4/4

Christine de Pizan,
b. c.1362; Venice, Italy
d. c.1431

Christine de Pizan was a feminist philosopher and first professional women writer in the medieval era. Her first works as a writer was to provide for her family after the death of her husband. She then became a critic of Jean de Meun who slandered women in his Romance of the Rose.

The illustration for the presentation frontispiece of Christine de Pizan presenting her Collected Works to Queen Isabeau of France consists solely of females.

Plato
b. c. 427 BC; Greece
d. c. 347 BC

Pythagoras
b. c. 569 BC; Greece
d. c. 475 BC

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Jean Rostand, Photographic Print

Jean Rostand
b. 10-30-1894; France
d. 9-4-1977

Jean Rostand was an experimental biologist who was a philosopher about the responsibilities of humanity and our place in nature, a science writer, and activist against nuclear proliferation and the death penalty.

His father was playwright Edmond Rostand most noted for his play Cyrano de Bergerac.

Jean Rostand quotes:
• “A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.”
• “It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.”
• “I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.”
• “Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god.”

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
b. 6-28-1712; Geneva, Switzerland
d. 7-2-1778; France

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, philosopher, author and composer, based his philosophical works of the principle of the natural goodness of humanity and the corrupting influence of civilization and society. Individual liberty was crushed by division of labor and a social contract that called for the investing power in governing structures.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau quotes:
• “All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.”
• “Base souls have no faith in great individuals.”
• “Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.”
• “I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.”
• “However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.”
• “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in shackles.”
• “The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.”
• “The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.”
• “You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.”

• The Social Contract, Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Bertrand Russell
b. 5-18-1872; Wales
d. 2-7-1970; Wales

Social reformer and pacifist Bertrand Arthur William Russell was a philosopher, logician, mathematician, and historian.

• The Social Contract, Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Friedrich Schiller
b. 11-10-1759; Germany
d. 5-9-1805

Friedrich Schiller, philosopher, poet, historian, & dramatist, inspired Beethoven's “Ode to Joy” with his poem “An die Freude”. Schiller also had a deep friendship with Goethe.

Friedrich Schiller quotes:
• “A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.”
• “Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.”
• “Art is the daughter of freedom.”
• “Freedom can occur only through education.”
• “Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.”
• “In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.”

• On the Aesthetic Education of Man, Schiller

Arthur Schopenhauer
b. 2-22-1788; Prussia
d. 9-21-1860

• The World as Will & Representation

Seneca
b. c. 4 BC; Cordoba, Hispania
d. 65 AD

• Dare Poster - “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.” Seneca

Adam Smith
bap. 6-5-1723; Scotland
d. 7-17-1790

• The Wealth of Nations

Socrates
b. c. 470 BC; Greece
d. c. 399 BC

Solon
b. c. 638 BC; Greece
d. c. 558 BC

Emanuel Swedenborg
b. 1-29-1688; Sweden
d. 3-28-1772

Swedenborg was a Swedish philosopher, Christian mystic, and theologian who had a prolific career as an inventor and scientist. Notable people who were influenced by Swedenborg include William Blake, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Carl Jung, August Stindberg, Charles Baudelaire, Balzac, William Butler Yeats, John “Johnny Appleseed” Chapman, William James, and Helen Keller.

• Collected Works of Emanuel Swedenborg

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
b. 5-1-1881; France
d. 4-10-1955; NY

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Henry David Thoreau
b. 7-12-1817; Concord, MA
d. 12-31-1836

“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”
Walden, Henry David Thoreau

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Miguel de Unamuno
b. 9-29-1864; Basque, Spain
d. 12-31-1936

Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo was a philosopher and writer. He was opposed to Franco and died under house arrest in 1936.

• Tragic Sense of Life by Unamuno

Zeno of Citium

Zeno of Citium quotes:
• “Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.”
• “No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.”
• “Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.”

• A Summary of Stoic Philosophy: Zeno of Citium in Diogenes Laertius Book Seven

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