Philosophers were born

Name the place where the philosopher was born.

Order by time of birth a.k.a. chronological

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Philosopher	Born in...	Known for e.g.
Laozi	Chujen village / State of Chu	Daoism, wu wei	BCE
Mozi	Lu / Zhou Kingdom	Mohism, authenticity over ritual	BCE
Diogenes	Sinope	Cynicism, cosmopolitanism	BCE
Aristotle	Stagira / Chalcidian League	Syllogism, virtue ethics	BCE
Epicurus	Samos	Aponia, atomic swerve	BCE
Chrysippus	Soli / Cilicia	Stoicism, pneuma	BCE
Cicero	Arpinum / Roman Republic	Problem of evil, summum bonum	BCE
Epictetus	Hierapolis / Phrygia	Memento mori, philosophy is a way of life	1-500 CE
Augustine of Hippo	Thagaste / Roman Empire	Original sin, concuspicence/"sinful lust"	1-500 CE
Boëthius	Rome / Kingdom of Italy	The Wheel of Fortune/Rota fortunae	1-500 CE
Al-Ma'arri	al-Ma'arra / Emirate of Aleppo	Veganism, opposition to religion	500-1000 CE
Avicenna	Afshona / Samanid Empire	"Floating man", "Proof of the Truthful"	500-1000 CE
Averroes	Córdoba / Almoravid Empire	Unity of the intellect	1000-1500 CE
Thomas Aquinas	Roccasecca / Kingdom of Sicily	Peripatetic axiom, Double effect	1000-1500 CE
Thomas More	City of London / England	Utopia, Hatred/rage for Martin Luther	1000-1500 CE
Baltasar Gracián	Belmonte de Gracián / Spain	Gracián's maxims, pessimism	1500-1800 CE
Baruch Spinoza	Amsterdam / Dutch Republic	Affect, Spinozism	1500-1800 CE
Voltaire	Paris / Kingdom of France	Freedom of speech, freedom of religion	1500-1800 CE
Anton Wilhelm Amo	Axim	Critique of Descartes' philosophy of mind	1500-1800 CE
David Hume	Edinburgh / Scotland	Bundle theory, science of man	1500-1800 CE
Immanuel Kant	Königsberg / Prussia	Nebular hypothesis, Kantian ethics	1500-1800 CE
Arthur Schopenhauer	Danzig / Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth	Schopenhauerian aesthetics, philosophical pessimism	1500-1800 CE
Søren Kierkegaard	Copenhagen / Denmark-Norway	Present age, existential despair	1800-1900 CE
Edmund Husserl	Proßnitz / Austrian Empire	Phenomenology, indirect realism	1800-1900 CE
Kitarō Nishida	Unokema / Japan	Basho, absolute nothingness	1800-1900 CE
Rosa Luxemburg	Zamość / Russian Empire	Revolutionary socialist democracy	1800-1900 CE
Sri Aurobindo	Calcutta / British raj	Supermind, intermediate zone	1800-1900 CE
Ludwig Wittgenstein	Vienna / Austria-Hungary	Language-games, family resemblance	1800-1900 CE
Albert Camus	Mondovi / Algeria	Absurdism	1900-
David Sztybel	Toronto / Canada	Animal ethics	1900-

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