The English philosopher, economist, psychologist and sociologist, was one of the leading positivists of the 19th Century. He comes to the merit of having extended the classical empiricism to positivism. John Stuart Mill developed a system of inductive and deductive ...

The German writer was one of the leading Enlightenment in Germany of the 18th Century. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, a professor led the Göttingen University of Georgia-Augusta not only to experimental physics in a clear manner in the one academic instruction, ...

The translator and editor, was a versatile and important poet of the Enlightenment. With his journal, "The Mercury Teutsche" he contributed to the fact that Weimar developed to contemporary culture. His "collected works" (1794-1811) include a total of 45 volumes. ...

The Russian writer and thinker is one of the greatest writers in world literature. His main work is the massive epic "War and Peace", which emerged as one of the world's best novels from the historical, biographical and literary memoirs. ...

The French jurist, politician and moral philosopher was one of the most important thinkers and poets of the French Renaissance. Eyquem Michel de Montaigne developed the essay form as a distinct literary genre. In philosophical questions, he was a consistent ...