Philosophers and Thinkers

Philosophers and Thinkers gathers figures whose enduring questions about truth, virtue, justice, the soul and God laid the foundations of Western thought. The tradition begins in ancient Athens with Socrates, his student Plato and Plato's student Aristotle, continues with the Stoic emperor Marcus Aurelius, and is carried into the Christian centuries by Augustine of Hippo and Thomas Aquinas, who joined faith and reason. Early modern thinkers René Descartes, Blaise Pascal, John Locke and Immanuel Kant took up questions of knowledge, liberty and moral duty. United by a commitment to reason, conscience and the pursuit of wisdom, they continue to shape education, ethics, law and faith.