Vocabulary

Plato's Allegory of the Cave An allegory used by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work The Republic to illustrate "our natu...

Orphic Sages Those associated with Orphism or a religious and philosophical system of the Orphic School. Orphism is a mystery religion of ...

Niccolò Machiavelli Italian historian, diplomat, philosopher, humanist and writer in Florence during the Renaissance. Founder of mod...

Alfred Whitehead Known for his metaphysics, he was also a mathematician. "Every real life object may be understood in a similarly con...

Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher, poet, composer, and cultural critic. He wrote texts on religion, morality, philosophy, contemporar...

Albert Camus French author, journalist, and philosopher. Contributed views to philosophy known as absurdism. He believed in existentialism...

David Hume A Scottish philosopher, historian, and economist. Known for his philosophical empiricism and skepticism. Important figure in hi...