Friday, April 19, 2024

Great Thinkers

Welcome to “Great Thinkers” – where you can engage with the fascinating life stories of those men and women who have helped shape our world and our lives through the range and depth of their ideas, their vision and their imagination. We owe a debt of gratitude to these philosophers, scientists, inventors, writers, teachers and reformers, many of whom endured scepticism and hostility towards their beliefs and innovations:

Want to know more? Please feel free to explore these pages and discover for yourself some impressive and unusual life stories.

Bernard Williams – Personal Identity and the Self

An analytical philosopher with the soul of a humanist, Bernard Williams debunked the codifying of ethics into convenient moral theories. Bernard Williams (1929-2003) considered much...