Great Minds
Architects of thought · Masters of the inner world
Erich Fromm
Erich Fromm was a German social psychologist, psychoanalyst, and humanistic philosopher. Associated with the Frankfurt School of c…
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Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis. He proposed that unconscious drives, particularly sex…
Carl Jung
Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. A former collaborator of Freud, he …
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Baltasar Gracián
Baltasar Gracián was a Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher. His most famous work, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, i…
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Sun Tzu
Sun Tzu was a Chinese general, military strategist, and philosopher who lived in the Eastern Zhou period. He is traditionally cred…
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Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes was an English philosopher, best known for his 1651 book Leviathan. Writing in the aftermath of the English Civil Wa…
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Heraclitus
Heraclitus of Ephesus was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher known as "The Obscure" and "The Weeping Philosopher." His central doctr…
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Aristotle
Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. He founded the Lyceum and w…
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Plato
Plato was an Athenian philosopher and student of Socrates. He founded the Academy, the first institution of higher learning in the…
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Epictetus
Epictetus was a Greek Stoic philosopher born a slave. His Discourses and Enchiridion (Handbook) were recorded by his student Arria…
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Seneca
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist. He served as an advisor to Em…
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Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius was a Roman Emperor (161–180 AD) and a Stoic philosopher. His private journal, known as Meditations, is one of th…
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