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- Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant (22 Apr 1724 - 12 Feb
1804) was a Prussian (German) philosopher, generally
regarded as the most major figure in Modern
Philosophy, put alongside Plato and Aristotle from Ancient
Philosophy. ...
- M.R.M. Parrott
Mark Ray Martin Parrott (born 12 Oct
1966) is an American philosopher, writer,
photographer, designer, and programmer, known
for his early adoption of independent, small
press Publishing, and as
developer of GetWiki,
a wiki/blog website focusing
on Philosophy and other
subjects. ...
- Gottfried Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1 Jul 1646 -
14 Nov 1716) was a German philosopher and mathematician,
writing primarily in Latin and French, who,
independently of Newton, invented Calculus, invented the
Binary Number System,
and was a contributor to a vast array of
subjects, including Philosophy, Physics, Technology, Politics, Law, Ethics, Theology, History
and Philology. ...
- Baruch Spinoza
Baruch Benedict de Spinoza (24 Nov 1632 -
21 Feb 1677) was a Dutch philosopher of a
Portuguese Jewish family, whose
controversial metaphysical ideas
led to cherem (removal) against him
from Jewish Society, and his works were
banned by the Vatican. ...
- John Locke
John Locke (29 Aug 1632 - 28 Oct 1704) was
an English physician and philosopher and a key
Enlightenment
influence. ...
- David Hume
David Hume (7 May 1711 - ...
- Max Weber
Max Weber (21 Apr 1864 - 14 Jun 1920) was a
German thinker who developed a "Hermeneutic"
tradition in Sociology and Economics. ...
- Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce (10 Sep 1839 - 19
Apr 1914, and pronounced: "Purse") was an
American philosopher, logician,
mathematician, and developer of Semiotics, for which he
is largely appreciated today. ...
- George Berkeley
George Berkeley (12 Mar 1685 - 14 Jan 1753,
and pronounced: "Barkly") was an Anglo-Irish
philosopher who
advanced a theory of "Immaterialism" and was
known as the good "Bishop Berkeley". ...
- John Rawls
John Bordley Rawls (21 Feb 1921 - 24 Nov
2002), a Harvard University professor, was a
leading American figure in Moral Philosophy. ...
- Plato
Plato (428-27 - 348-47 BC) was a major
Greek thinker in Ancient Philosophy, a student
of Socrates, founder of the
first Academy, and with his
student Aristotle and the most
important modern
philosopher Kant, is still
considered one of the singularly important thinkers of all time. ...
- Aristotle
Aristotle (384-322 BC) was a major
Greek thinker in Ancient Philosophy, a student
of Plato (who was student of
Socrates) and a teacher
of Alexander the Great. ...
- René Descartes
René Descartes (31 Mar 1596 - 11 Feb 1650),
also known as Renatus Cartesius and
dubbed "Father of Modern Philosophy", was a
French philosopher crucial to
Western Philosophy in the
fields of Metaphysics and Philosophy of
Mind, and he was a key figure, with Francis Bacon and
others, in the Scientific Revolution. ...
- Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes (5 Apr 1588 - 4 Dec 1679) was
an English political philosopher,
most famous for his book Leviathan
(1651), and his view of a "state of nature"
to avoid, a life "brutish, nasty and short". ...
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