His only sibling was Simone Weil, a famous philosopher.

In 1929 at the École Normale, he met Simone de Beauvoir, who studied at the Sorbonne and later went on to become a noted philosopher, writer, and feminist.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty () ( 14 March 1908 – 3 May 1961 ) was a French phenomenological philosopher, strongly influenced by Karl Marx, Edmund Husserl, and Martin Heidegger in addition to being closely associated with Jean-Paul Sartre ( who later stated he had been " converted " to Marxism by Merleau-Ponty ) and Simone de Beauvoir.

* August 24 – Simone Weil, French philosopher ( b. 1909 )

The philosopher and feminist Simone de Beauvoir applied existentialism to women's experience of life: " One is not born a woman, one becomes one.

* Simone Weil, philosopher, and theological writer

One view exposed by the philosopher Simone de Beauvoir said: " One is not born a woman, one becomes one ".

Simone Weil (; 3 February 1909 – 24 August 1943 ) was a French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist.

The French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir in A Very Easy Death ( Une mort très douce, 1964 ) reflects within her own conscience about her mother's attempts to develop such a moral sympathy and understanding of others.

* April 14 – Simone de Beauvoir, philosopher and feminist writer

The mystic and philosopher Simone Weil, who had helped the Spanish anarchists as a combat soldier, would later promote participatory democracy in her political manifesto The Need for Roots.

In 1982, this section was named Simone Weil Avenue, in honour of the French philosopher and mystic.

* Simone de Beauvoir-Writer and philosopher

" The French philosopher Simone Weil has argued that debt is evil, because it leads us to the false belief that the past ( a promise to pay later for instance ) give us right to a certain future ( a given money sum at a given date ).

* Simone Weil, philosopher

He belonged to a wealthy and noble Neapolitan family, and was the son of the philosopher Simone Porzio.

Simone Porzio ( Simon Portius ) ( 1496 – 1554 ) was an Italian philosopher, born and died in Naples.

* August 24-Simone Weil, philosopher ( born 1909 )

Of Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe the philosopher Whitehead said the Earth's first visitors to Mars should be persons likely to make a good impression, and when he was asked, `` Whom would you send ''??

While he was at it, the philosopher of the Kremlin contributed an additional assist to the rule of reason by bellowing at those in the west who can't appreciate coexistence thru suicide.

In 1803 Oersted returned to Copenhagen and applied for the university's chair in physics but was rejected because he was probably considered more a philosopher than a physicist.

He was a propagandist -- they weren't afraid of the word, then -- satirist, nature lover, philosopher, scientist, what you will, a member of every party and of no party.

Aristotle (, Aristotélēs ) ( 384 BC – 322 BC ) was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.

Although his respect for Aristotle was diminished as his travels made it clear that much of Aristotle's geography was clearly wrong, when the old philosopher released his works to the public, Alexander complained " Thou hast not done well to publish thy acroamatic doctrines ; for in what shall I surpass other men if those doctrines wherein I have been trained are to be all men's common property?

The term was originally coined in the 19th century by the founding sociologist and philosopher of science, Auguste Comte, and has become a major topic for psychologists ( especially evolutionary psychology researchers ), evolutionary biologists, and ethologists.

Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski () ( July 3, 1879 – March 1, 1950 ) was a Polish-American philosopher and scientist.

In 1661, natural philosopher Robert Boyle published The Sceptical Chymist in which he argued that matter was composed of various combinations of different " corpuscules " or atoms, rather than the classical elements of air, earth, fire and water.

The use of the term was first attributed to Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard ( 1813 – 1855 ).

Albert Camus (; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960 ) was an algerian born author, journalist, and philosopher.

Albert Schweitzer, OM ( 14 January 1875 – 4 September 1965 ) was a German and then French theologian, organist, philosopher, physician, and medical missionary.

Amos Bronson Alcott ( November 29, 1799 – March 4, 1888 ) was an American teacher, writer, philosopher, and reformer.

The stone was given its name by Theophrastus, a Greek philosopher and naturalist, who discovered the stone along the shore line of the river Achates () sometime between the 4th and 3rd centuries BC.

" Kierkegaard cites G. O. Marbach who he quotes as saying " Albertus repente ex asino factus philosophus et ex philosopho asinus " was suddenly transformed from an ass into a philosopher and from a philosopher into an ass.

200 AD ) was a Peripatetic philosopher and the most celebrated of the Ancient Greek commentators on the writings of Aristotle.

Ammonius Hermiae (; c. 440-c. 520 ) was a Greek philosopher, and the son of the Neoplatonist philosophers Hermias and Aedesia.

Ammonius Saccas ( 3rd century AD ) () was a Greek philosopher from Alexandria who was often referred to as one of the founders of Neoplatonism.

Anacharsis (; ) was a Scythian philosopher who travelled from his homeland on the northern shores of the Black Sea to Athens in the early 6th century BC and made a great impression as a forthright, outspoken " barbarian ", apparently a forerunner of the Cynics, though none of his works have survived.

" His conversation was droll and frank, and Solon and the Athenians took to him as a sage and philosopher.

Anaxagoras (, " lord of the assembly "; c. 500 – 428 BC ) was a Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher.

* 1980 – The Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein kills philosopher Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr and his sister Bint al-Huda after three days of torture.

A group of radical socialist Australians in the 1890s voluntarily went to create a failed master-planned community, known as Nueva ( New ) Australia ; and Elisabeth Nietzsche, a German racial ideologist and sister of philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche came to Paraguay in her attempt to build a colony, Nueva Germania ( Neues Deutschland ) devoted to a hypothetical pure white " Nordic " society in the 1890s.

Byzantine tradition maintains that Dio's mother was the daughter or sister of the Greek orator and philosopher, Dio Chrysostom ; however, this relationship has been disputed.

Fanny Hensel, 1842, by Moritz Daniel OppenheimFanny Mendelssohn ( 14 November 1805 – 14 May 1847 ), later Fanny Mendelssohn Bartholdy and, after her marriage, Fanny Hensel, was a German pianist and composer, the sister of the composer Felix Mendelssohn and granddaughter of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn.

Næss ' mother, whose maiden name he would adopt as his own surname, was the sister of philosopher and mountaineer Arne Næss.

His wife was Moina Mathers ( née Mina Bergson ), sister of the philosopher Henri Bergson.

Benson was one of six children of Edward White Benson ( Archbishop of Canterbury, 1882 – 96 ) and his lesbian wife Mary, sister of the philosopher Henry Sidgwick.

His manuscripts were preserved by his sister and, most notably, by his friend Yakov Druskin, a notable music theorist and amateur theologist and philosopher, who dragged a suitcase full of Kharms's and Vvedensky's writings out of Kharms's apartment during the blockade of Leningrad and kept it hidden throughout difficult times.

Smith's sister Alys was the first wife of philosopher Bertrand Russell, and his sister Mary married the art historian Bernard Berenson.

She was the sister of religious philosopher and medieval historian Lev Karsavin.

Inspired by the writing of Richard Wagner, and because of his own strong anti-semitism, he set out to establish a German settlement in Paraguay with his wife Elisabeth Förster née Nietzsche ( sister of the philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche ) and some German families.

The Burning Man, a sister novel running in parallel in time to The King of the Bastards, is the story of Johannes van der Kemp, military officer, doctor, and philosopher, who eventually became a missionary in South Africa.

In 1857, the family returned to Russia, and Yuliana's older sister married Vsevolod Solovyov, the brother of Russian philosopher Vladimir Solovyov.