Philosophers - English Version

PHILOSOPHY

Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804)

Famous for: Critique of Practical Reason, The Categorical Imperative, The Age of Enlightment

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 – 1900)

Famous for: atheistic critique of religion, master/slave morality and nihilism

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you

Karl Marx (1818 – 1883)

Famous for: class struggle, communism, Marxism

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

Martin Heidegger (1889 – 1976)

Famous for: existential phenomenology, philosophical hermeneutics

Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man

Theodor W. Adorno (1903 – 1969)

Famous for: Critical theory of society, Frankfurt School, “Dialectic of Enlightenment”

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

RELIGION

Martin Luther (1483 – 1546)

Initiator of the Protestant Reformation, translated the Bible into vernacular, which fostered the development of a standard German

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

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Philosophers – English Version