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Lao Tzu: Machiavelli
Lao Tzu: Machiavelli
Lao Tzu
Born: May 3, 1469, Florence, Italy Died: June 21, 1527 (age 58
years), Florence, Italy Grandparents: Niccolo Machiavelli, Stefano
Nelli, Laudomia Acciaioli
-Machiavelli said the state is superior to all associations in the
human society. It is sovereign and is autonomous, Moral and
religious considerations cannot bind the prince. He is above and
outside the morality. He can use religion to realize his ends.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Born: 372 BC, Zou Died: 289 BC (age 83 years), Zou Parents:
Meng Mu, Meng Ji Era: Ancient philosophy Family: Meng Ji
(father); Meng Mu (mother)
Mencius
Born: Qufu, Jining, China Died: Lu Grandchild: Zisi Great
grandchild: Kong Bai
-Confucius believed that to restore order, societies had to
encourage certain virtues, such as loyalty, trustworthiness, and
respecting your elders. He believed people were capable of
attaining these and other virtues through education. By learning
history, literature, and philosophy, people could gain insights.
Confucius
Born: 384 BC, Stagira, Greece Died: 322 BC (age 62 years), Chalcis,
Greece Children: Nicomachus, Pythias Grandchild: Demaratus
-Aristotle's MainContributions.
Aristotle's Main Contributions.Aristotle
Aristotleisisknown
knownfor
forinventing
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the
scientific method of analysis, which can be applied to multiple fields of
study. He also is responsible for breaking fields of knowledge into
categories and subcategories, such as psychology, biology, politics, logic,
logic, chemistry,
chemistry, and botany.
and botany.
Aristotle
Plato
Ac1b Born: February 5, 1930, Cabatuan Died: October 27, 2013
(age 83 years), Quezon City
-Felipe Landa Jocano, a Filipino anthropologist, was behind the
development of the Core Population Theory otherwise known as the
Evolution Theory - and one of the first to question Beyer's Wave
Migration Theory. Jocano was born on 5th February 1930 in
Cabatuan, Iloilo.
Felipe Landa
H. Otey Boyer
Born: November 21, 1694, Paris, France Died: May 30, 1778 (age
83 years), Paris, France
Voltaire
Born: June 28, 1712, Geneva, Switzerland Died: July 2, 1778 (age 66
years), Ermenonville, France Parents: Suzanne Bernard Rousseau,
Isaac Rousseau Siblings: François Rousseau
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Genevan born political and moral
philosopher of the Enlightenment Era. He is well known for his work
On the Social Contract, which questioned the purpose and place of
government and its responsibility for its citizens.
Jean-Jacques
Rousseau
Born: January 18, 1689, La Brède, France Died: February 10, 1755
(age 66 years), Paris, France
Montesquieu
Born: November 30, 1863, Tondo Died: May 10, 1897 (age 33 years),
Maragondon Parents: Santiago Bonifacio, Catalina de Castro Children:
Andres Bonifacio y de Jesús
-Unlike the nationalist poet and novelist José Rizal, who wanted to reform
Spanish rule in the Philippines, Bonifacio advocated complete
independence from Spain. In 1892 he founded the Katipunan in Manila,
modelling its organization and ceremony on that of the Masonic order.
Andres Bonifacio
Born: July 23, 1864, Talaga, Tanauan Died: May 13, 1903 (age 38
years), Manila Parents: Dionisia Maranan, Inocencio Mabin
-He continued to serve as the chief adviser for General Aguinaldo after
the Philippine Declaration of Independence on June 12. He drafted
decrees and edited the constitution for the First Philippine Republic,
including the framework of the revolutionary government which was
implemented in Malolos in 1899.
Apolinario Mabini
Born: August 19, 1878, Baler Died: August 1, 1944 (age 65 years),
Saranac Lake, New York, United States Previous offices: Secretary of
National Defense of Philippines (1941–1941), More Presidential term:
November 15, 1935 – August 1, 1944
-His most significant achievement was the passage of the Jones Act
that provided for the grant of Philippine independence. He was
elected senator in 1916 and eventually became Senate President. He
headed the first Independence Mission to the U.S. Congress, and
brought home the Tydings-McDuffie Independence Law in 1934.
Manuel L. Quezon
Born: June 19, 1861, Calamba Died: December 30, 1896 (age 35
years), Rizal Park, Manila Full name: José Protacio Rizal Mercado y
Alonso Realonda Parents: Teodora Alonso Realonda, Francisco
Mercado
Born: August 30, 1850, Bulacan Died: July 4, 1896 (age 45 years),
Old Hospital de la Santa Creu, Barcelona, Spain
Marcelo H.
Del Pilar
Born: December 18, 1856, Jaro Died: January 20, 1896 (age 39 years),
Barcelona, Spain Parents: Maria Jacoba Jaena, Placido López
Graciano Lopez
Jaena
Born: March 22, 1863, Baliwag Died: May 23, 1918 (age 55 years),
The Prince Philip Dental Hospital, Hong Kong Parents: Mariano
Ponce Sr., Mariana Collantes de los Santos
-Ponce was the co-founder of La Solidaridad with fellow co-founder
Graciano López Jaena. He was also the head of the Literary Section
of the Asociacion Hispano-Filipina, created to aid the Propaganda
Movement where he served as secretary.
Mariano Ponce
Act1c Born: Alopece Died: February 15, 399 BC, Classical Athens
Children: Lamprocles, Menexenus, Sophroniscus Parents:
Sophroniscus, Phaenarete
-It has been said that Socrates' greatest contribution to philosophy
was to move intellectual pursuits away from the focus on `physical
science' (as pursued by the so-called Pre-Socratic Philosophers such
as Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes, and others) and into the
abstract realm of ethics and morality.
Socrates
-Hobbes is best known for his 1651 book Leviathan, in which he expounds
an influential formulation of social contract theory. In addition to political
philosophy, Hobbes contributed to a diverse array of other fields, including
history, jurisprudence, geometry, theology, and ethics, as well as philosophy
in general.
Thomas Hobles
John Locke
Born: October 2, 1832, Camberwell, London, United Kingdom Died:
January 2, 1917 (age 84 years), Wellington, United Kingdom Parents:
Harriet Skipper, Joseph Tylor
-Tylor's contributions to the science of anthropology are historic,
especially his analysis of small-scale society and the relationship
between culture and mentality, and his work on the evolution of culture
and the religion of animism (omnipresent spiritual life in all organic
living things).
Edward Taylor
Franz Boas
Charles Darwin
Act1a Born: January 8, 1946 (age 78 years), Guagua Children: Kara
David Grandchild: Julia Kristiana David
-He has authored several books including “Reflections on Sociology
and Philippine Society”, published in 2001, and “Nation, Self, and
Citizenship: An Invitation to Philippine Sociology,” published in
2002, that won the National Book Award in 2002 and 2003
respectively.
Born: April 21, 1864, Erfurt, Germany Died: June 14, 1920 (age 56
years), Munich, Germany Grandparents: Friedrich Fallenstein, Emilie
Fallenstein
-Get a brief introduction to what are considered some of his most
important theoretical contributions: his formulation of the connection
between culture and economy; conceptualizing how people and
institutions come to have authority, and how they keep it; and, the
"iron cage" of bureaucracy and how it shapes our lives.
Max Weber
Emile Durkheim
Born: November 28, 1820, Barmen, Germany
Died: August 5, 1895 (age 74 years), London, United Kingdom Parents:
M Friederich Engels Sr., Elizabeth Engels
-In the mid-19th century, Marxism helped to consolidate, inspire, and
radicalize elements of the labour and socialist movements in western Europe,
and it was later the basis of Marxism-Leninism and Maoism, the
revolutionary doctrines developed by Vladimir Lenin in Russia and Mao
Zedong in China, respectively.
Friedrich Engels
Karl Marx
Auguste Comte