The worker becomes all the poorer the more wealth he produces, the more his production increases in power and range […]
The father of modern political theory, Niccolo Machiavelli, was born at Florence in 1469, saw the troubles of the French invasion […]
Iosef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, Koba, the "Man of Steel," or Stalin, was born in Georgia, was educated at the Tiflis […]
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, perhaps the greatest of the German idealist philosophers, was born at Stuttgart, August 27, 1770 […]
Maximilien Marie Isidore de Robespierre was born at Arras, May 6, 1758. He was admitted avocat in 1781, and was elected […]
A chronology of the life and literary career of George Orwell, 1903-1950 - includes a list of resources and a select bibliograph […]
The Roman emperor, Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus, or Constantine I, was born at Naissus, in Upper Moesia […]
Gaius Julius Caesar (the name Caesar means leader), was the son of a Roman praetor. His aunt was the wife of Marius […]
John Calvin was born in 1509. John Calvin was the son of a lawyer. He was born in Noyon, Picardy and was therefore […]
English anarchist and utopian political and social philosopher. The father of philosophical anarchism, William Godwin […]
Socrates, born in Athens around 470/469 BC, remains one of the most enigmatic figures in the annals of philosophy […]
The daughter of King Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn, Queen Elizabeth I was born in Greenwich Palace […]
The most enigmatic of all the philosophes of the 18th century Enlightenment, the political philosopher, educationist and essayist, Jean Jacques Rousseau […]