Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz

45 Great Philosophers and What They Mean for Judaism

A virtual class series hosted by Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz

ABOUT THE CLASS: Rabbi Shmuly is going to give a weekly class (for 45 weeks!) on "45 Great Philosophers and What They Mean for Judaism." The class will begin with a presentation for about 20-25 minutes and then participants can engage in conversation for the remainder of the hour.


ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz is the President & Dean of Valley Beit Midrash

NOTE: All classes take place from 10 am to 11 am PST. Participants for this class can sign up a la carte, or can pay for them all at a reduced rate of $400. Members of Valley Beit Midrash can attend the classes for free.

Register here - https://www.valleybeitmidrash.org/learn-with-rabbi-shmuly/​

Class 1 - Confucius (551–479 B.C.E.) 

Class 2 - Buddha (about 450 B.C.E)

Class 3 - Socrates (469 - 399 B.C.E.)

Class 4 - Plato (429 - 347 B.C.E.)

Class 5 - Aristotle (384 - 322 B.C.E.)

Class 6 - Avicenna (908 - 1037 C.E.)

 Class 7 - Averroes (1126 - 1198)

Class 8 - Moses Maimonides (ca. 1135 - 1204)

Class 9 - Thomas Hobbes (1588 - 1679)

Class 10 Réne Descartes (1596 - 1650)

Class 11 John Locke (1632 - 1704)

Class 12 Baruch Spinazo (1632 - 1637)

Class 13 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646 - 1716)

Class 14 Voltaire (1694-1778)

Class 15 David Hume (1711 - 1776)

Class 16 Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778)

Class 17 Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804)

Class 18 Jeremy Bentham (1748 - 1832)

Class 19 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770 - 1831)

Class 20 John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)

Class 21 Søren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)

Class 22 Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

Class 23 Karl Marx (1818 - 1883)

Class 24 William James (1842 - 1910)

Class 25 Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)

Class 26 Mary Wollstonecraft (1759 - 1797)

Class 27 Edmund Husserl (1859 - 1938)

Class 28 John Dewey (1859-1952)

Class 29 Martin Buber (1878 - 1965)

Class 30 Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951)

Class 31 Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980)

Class 32 Emmanuel Levinas (1906 - 1995)

Class 33 Hannah Arendt (1906 - 1975)

Class 34 Simone de Beauvoir (1908 - 1986)

Class 35 Isaiah Berlin (1909 - 1997)

Class 36 Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)

Class 37 John Rawls (1921 - 2002)

Class 38 Michel Foucault (1926 - 1984)

Class 39 Noam Chomsky (1928 - Present)

Class 40 Jacques Derrida (1930 - 2004)

Class 41 Daniel Dennett (1942 - Current)

Class 42 Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

Class 43 Peter Singer (1946 - Present)

Class 44 Martha Nussbaum (1947 - Present)

Class 45 Kwame Anthony Appiah (1954 - Present)

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