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Famous Philosophers

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Last updated: December 6, 2018
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He knew that he knew nothing
Socrates
Master Kong's teachings shaped East Asian societies (Latinized name)
Confucius
Disciple of #1 and author of "The Republic"
Plato
Central figure in Taoism and author of the "Tao Te King"
Laozi
Teacher of Alexander the Great
Aristotle
Renowned orator and opponent of Caesar († 43 BC)
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Author of "The Prince" whose name became synonymous with ruthlessness
Niccolò Machiavelli
He argued for an absolute monarch, whom he called "Leviathan"
Thomas Hobbes
"I think, therefore I am"
René Descartes
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Enlightenment thinker who idealized mankind's State of Nature
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Critique of Pure Reason" author who never left Königsberg
Immanuel Kant
This disobedient fellow lived next to Walden Pond
Henry David Thoreau
Communist and partner of Friedrich Engels
Karl Marx
Wrote about the "Übermensch"
Friedrich Nietzsche
Existentialist who refused the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964
Jean-Paul Sartre
Platonic lover of the above and figurehead of feminism
Simone de Beauvoir
Compared human existence with the fate of Sisyphos
Albert Camus
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