Dariush Shayegan, the eminent Iranian philosopher, passed away on 22 March 2018, at the age of 83, after spending nearly two months at a Tehran hospital following a cerebral stroke. Born in Tabriz on 2 February 1935 to a Georgian mother and an Iranian Azeri merchant father, Dariush Shayegan grew up in a multi-lingual environment. From his early childhood, Shayegan was fluent in Azeri, Persian, and French.