Students’ Questions about History Page 16

Plotinus was a 3rd-century philosopher from Roman Egypt. He is considered the founder of Neo-Platonism.

William James contributed to psychology by introducing the concepts of functionalism and stream of consciousness.

Voltaire was a French philosopher, writer and historian. He was an outspoken critic of the Catholic Church and was a key figure in the Enlightenment.

Thomas Hobbes believed in a monarchy as the best form of government. He felt that it was the best way to ensure peace and order.

Sigmund Freud believed that our personalities are shaped by our childhood experiences and that we are not really aware of these experiences or their impact on us.

He is best known for his Confessions, which chronicles his journey from paganism to Christianity, and for City of God, an eloquent defense of the Christian faith.

The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women’s rights convention. It was held in Seneca Falls, New York, on July 19–20, 1848.

Parmenides was a Greek philosopher who was born in Elea, Italy. He is best known for his work ‘On Nature’, in which he argues that the only thing that exists is the One.

Plato was known as one of the most important philosophers of ancient Greece. He was also known as the founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.

Simone de Beauvoir was a French writer, intellectual, and philosopher. She is best known for her 1949 work The Second Sex, a groundbreaking feminist text.