Monday, August 11

jobs of philosophers

Aquinas                       Dominican friar and priest
Averroes                      judge; political advisor
Avicenna                     physician; lecturer; vizier
Bacon, F.                     diplomat; barrister; parliamentarian; judge    
Bacon, R.                    Franciscan friar
Beauvoir                      teacher; successful author
Bentham                      rich
Berkeley                      lecturer; humanitarian; bishop
De Pizan                      court writer; author/poet
Descartes                     soldier; sold his property for bonds
Duns Scotus                lecturer; Franciscan priest
Fichte                          tutor; professor of philosophy
Galileo                         art instructor; chair of mathematics; teacher of geometry, mechanics, and astronomy
Hegel                           house tutor; lecturer; newspaper editor; gymnasium headmaster; professor
Hobbes                        tutor; court pension
Hume                          worked in merchant’s office; tutor; secretary
Jacobi                          business manager; councilman; social reformer; founder of literary journal
Kant                            lecturer; professor
Kierkegaard                inheritance; successful author
Leibniz                        alchemist; assessor; diplomat; counsellor to duke; Privy Counsellor of Justice
Locke                          personal physician; government secretary; tutor and medical assistant
Maimonides                rabbi; physician
Malebranche                French Oratorian priest
Mill, J. S.                     worked for East India Co.; member of parliament
Ockham                       Franciscan friar
Paine, T                       master corset-maker; excise officer; schoolteacher; editor; inventor; government secretary; designer or bridges
Pascal                          mathematician; inventor;
Rousseau                     servant, secretary, tutor; kept man; recipient of small inheritance; tutor; government secretary; copier of music
Sartre                           soldier; meteorologist; teacher; writer; political activist
Schelling                     tutor; private lecturer; professor
Schopenhauer              lecturer; merchant
Spinoza                       lens grinder; turned down prestigious teaching positions
Vico                            professor of rhetoric; historian; jurist
Wittgenstein                army officer; professor; school teacher; hospital porter; monastery gardener

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