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Martin Buber
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Martin Buber

Austrian-Israeli philosopher (1878–1965)

Joseph Priestley
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Joseph Priestley

English chemist and polymath (1733–1804)

Lucretius
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Lucretius

1st-century BC Roman poet and philosopher

Anaximander
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Anaximander

Ancient Greek philosopher (c. 610 – c. 546 BC)

Empedocles
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Empedocles

5th century BC Greek philosopher

Joseph de Maistre
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Joseph de Maistre

Savoyard political philosopher (1753–1821)

Alain de Benoist
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Alain de Benoist

French political theorist

Giambattista Vico
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Giambattista Vico

Italian philosopher (1668–1744)

Henri de Saint-Simon
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Henri de Saint-Simon

French early socialist theorist (1760–1825)

Zygmunt Bauman
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Zygmunt Bauman

Polish sociologist and philosopher (1925–2017)

Ramon Llull
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Ramon Llull

Majorcan writer and philosopher (c. 1232 – 1316)

Al-Farabi
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Al-Farabi

Islamic philosopher and music theorist (c. 870 – 950/951)

Protagoras
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Protagoras

Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher (c.490–c.420 BC)

Johann Gottlieb Fichte
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Johann Gottlieb Fichte

German philosopher (1762–1814)

Pope Eugene IV
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Pope Eugene IV

Head of the Catholic Church from 1431 to 1447

Gerolamo Cardano
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Gerolamo Cardano

Italian Renaissance polymath (1501–1576)

Luciano Floridi
Tech

Luciano Floridi

Italian philosopher

Alain Finkielkraut
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Alain Finkielkraut

French philosopher (born 1949)

Marsilio Ficino
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Marsilio Ficino

Italian philosopher and Catholic priest (1433–1499)

John Amos Comenius
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John Amos Comenius

Czech teacher, educator, philosopher and writer (1592–1670)

Imre Lakatos
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Imre Lakatos

Hungarian philosopher of mathematics and science (1922–1974)

Gaston Bachelard
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Gaston Bachelard

French philosopher (1884–1962)

Diotima of Mantinea
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Diotima of Mantinea

Ancient Greek woman or fictional figure in Plato's Symposium

Paul Feyerabend
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Paul Feyerabend

Austrian philosopher of science (1924–1994)