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Confucius

-551 - -479
Confucius, also known as Kong Qiu, was a Chinese philosopher and teacher who lived during the Spring...
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Friedrich Nietzsche

1844 - 1900
Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, and philologist who lived in th...
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Hannah Arendt

1906 - 1975
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was a German-born American political theorist. She escaped Nazi Germany in...
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Henry David Thoreau

1817 - 1862
Henry David Thoreau was an American essayist, poet, and philosopher known for his transcendentalist ...
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Jean-Paul Sartre

1905 - 1980
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, and political activist....
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Laozi

-604
Laozi, also known as Lao Tzu, is a legendary Chinese philosopher and writer believed to have lived i...
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Michel Foucault

1926 - 1984
Michel Foucault was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, and social theorist known for his work...
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Plato

427 - 347
Plato was an ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician who was a student of Socrates and the teach...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

1803 - 1882
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the transcendentalist movem...
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Alan Watts

1915 - 1973
Alan Watts was a British writer, speaker, and philosopher known for popularising Eastern philosophy ...
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Alasdair MacIntyre

1929
Alasdair MacIntyre is a prominent Scottish philosopher known for his works in ethics and political p...
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Alfred North Whitehead

1861 - 1947
Alfred North Whitehead was a British mathematician and philosopher known for his pioneering work in ...
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Arthur Schopenhauer

1788 - 1860
Arthur Schopenhauer was a 19th-century German philosopher known for his pessimistic philosophy. He d...
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Boethius

480 - 524
Boethius, also known as Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, was a Roman philosopher, statesman, and ...
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Byung-Chul Han

1959
Byung-Chul Han is a South Korean-born German philosopher known for his work on contemporary society ...
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