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Martin Heidegger

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Phenomenology, ontology and the question of Being, Dasein.

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Simone de Beauvoir

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Existentialism, feminism, ethics of ambiguity, liberation from societal expectations.

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Immanuel Kant

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Transcendental idealism, space and time as forms of intuition, things-in-themselves (noumena).

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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Absolute idealism, reality is the manifestation of the absolute, dialectical method.

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Plato

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Theory of Forms, belief in an abstract world of perfect forms or ideas distinct from the physical world.

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Gilles Deleuze

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Philosophy of difference, ontology of becoming and multiplicity, rhizomatic thinking.

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Bertrand Russell

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Analytic philosophy, logical atomism, theories of descriptions and logical types.

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David Hume

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Empiricism, skepticism about metaphysical concepts like causality and self.

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Baruch Spinoza

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Monism, ethical philosophy, 'God or Nature' (Deus sive Natura), as the single substance of reality.

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G.W.F. Hegel

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Concept of Geist (Spirit), world history as the progress of consciousness, absolute knowing through dialectics.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

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Perspectivism, criticism of traditional metaphysical concepts, 'Will to Power'.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Language philosophy, limits of language define the limits of the world, later the concept of 'language games'.

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Karl Popper

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Philosophy of science, falsification as a demarcation criterion for science, critique of historicism.

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Thales of Miletus

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Primordial substance as water, nature has inherent order, significance of change and permanence.

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John Locke

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Tabula rasa, empiricism, theory of knowledge based on experience.

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Jean-Paul Sartre

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Existentialism, existence precedes essence, radical freedom and responsibility of the individual.

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René Descartes

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Cartesian dualism, existence of the material world and the non-material mind.

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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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Monadology, theory of pre-established harmony, metaphysics of simple substances.

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Thomas Aquinas

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Integration of Aristotelian philosophy with Christian theology, existence of God as the 'Unmoved Mover'.

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Arthur Schopenhauer

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Philosophical pessimism, will as the fundamental reality, representation as the world as we perceive it.

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Søren Kierkegaard

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Existentialism, subjectivity as truth, leap of faith in the face of absurdity.

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Aristotle

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Substance theory, Four causes, Potentiality and actuality.

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Henri Bergson

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Philosophy of time and consciousness, élan vital as the creative force of life, critique of mechanistic determinism.

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Edmund Husserl

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Founder of phenomenology, intentionality, emphasis on the lived experience and consciousness.

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Alfred North Whitehead

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Process philosophy, actual entities as the fundamental units of reality, philosophy of organism.

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