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John Locke
Tabula rasa, social contract, empiricism, Age of Enlightenment
Arthur Schopenhauer
Pessimism, the will to live, aesthetic contemplation, 19th Century
Voltaire
Advocacy of freedom of speech, religious tolerance, criticism of church and state, Enlightenment Era
Søren Kierkegaard
Father of existentialism, subjectivity is truth, Leap of Faith, 19th Century
Socrates
Socratic method, virtuous knowledge, ethical living, Classical Greece Era
Plato
Theory of Forms, The Academy, importance of the philosopher king, Classical Greece Era
Karl Marx
Marxism, critique of capitalism, class struggle, 19th Century
Jean-Paul Sartre
Existentialism, Being and Nothingness, philosophy of freedom, 20th Century
Hannah Arendt
Banality of evil, vita activa vs. vita contemplativa, 20th Century
Martin Heidegger
Ontology, phenomenology, existence precedes essence, 20th Century
St. Augustine of Hippo
Christian Neoplatonism, Original Sin, just war theory, Late Antiquity
Aristotle
Empiricism, virtue ethics, Golden Mean, Classical Greece Era
Immanuel Kant
Deontological ethics, Critique of Pure Reason, categorical imperative, Enlightenment Era
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Language games, picture theory of language, logical positivism, 20th Century
Adam Smith
Classical economics, division of labor, invisible hand, 18th Century
Edmund Husserl
Phenomenology, epoche, intentionality, Early 20th Century
Laozi
Daoism, concept of Wu Wei (effortless action), natural order, Eastern Zhou dynasty
George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Hegelianism, dialectic process, absolute idealism, Early 19th Century
Baruch Spinoza
Pantheism, ethical living through understanding of the universe, 17th Century
Michel Foucault
Power/knowledge, discourse analysis, social institutions, Late 20th Century
John Stuart Mill
Utilitarianism, harm principle, On Liberty, 19th Century
Thomas Aquinas
Synthesis of Aristotelianism and Christianity, Natural Law, Summa Theologica, High Medieval Period
Blaise Pascal
Pascal's Wager, work in probability theory, Jansenism, 17th Century
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Philosophy of history, absolute idealism, master-slave dialectic, Early 19th Century
Friedrich Nietzsche
Critique of traditional morals, Übermensch, will to power, Late 19th Century
David Hume
Empiricism, skepticism, naturalism, Enlightenment Era
Confucius
The Analects, importance of rituals, filial piety, Spring and Autumn period of China
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Social contract, natural human goodness, direct democracy, Enlightenment Era
René Descartes
Cartesian Dualism, Cogito, ergo sum (I think, therefore I am), Scientific Revolution Era
Avicenna (Ibn Sina)
Aristotelianism, Islamic philosophy, medicine, 10th - 11th Century
Simone de Beauvoir
Feminist existentialism, ethics of ambiguity, 20th Century
Bertrand Russell
Analytic philosophy, logicism, philosophy of language, 20th Century
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Monadology, pre-established harmony, calculus, Late 17th - Early 18th Century
Zeno of Elea
Paradoxes, Eleatic philosophy, pre-Socratic Greek era
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