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Who was
Soren Kierkegaard
?
a 19th-century Danish philosopher who wrote abbout his belief that fear and loneliness can be associated with religion
Who was
St. Augustine
?
a Medieval Christian church leader who developed the idea that reason and faith are compatible
Who was
St. Thomas Aquinas
?
an Italian philosopher and theologian
Who was
Thomas Hobbes
?
a 17th-century English philosopher who argued the need for a strong government in order to prevent people from falling into a savage existence
Who was
John Dewey
?
an American philosopher and educational reformer and one of the founders of the school of pragmatism
Who was
Jean-Paul Sartre
?
a 20th-century French existentialist
Who was
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
?
an 18th-century French philosopher who was a leader of the Enlightenment movement
Who was
Jacques Derrida
?
an Algerian-born French philosopher and founder of deconstruction
Who was
Immanuel Kant
?
a German philosopher, one of the leading modern-day philosophers
Who was
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
?
a great 17th-century rationalist and philosopher that argued that God created a good world
Who was
George Berkeley
?
an Irish idealist who argued that only the mental existed
Who was
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
?
a German philosopher who asserted that all history was a progression toward a perfect state of being
Who was
Friedrich Nietzsche
?
a German moralist, rejected traditional Christian and Jewish morality
Who was
David Hume
?
a Scottish Empiricist known for his assertion that inductive knowledge is not certain
Who was
Bertrand Russell
?
a 20th-century English philosopher and mathematician
Who was
Aristotle
?
a student of Plato and the teacher of Alexander the Great
Who was
Plato
?
Socrate's student
Who was
Rene Descartes
?
a 17th-century French philosopher, considered the father of modern philosophy
Who was
Socrates
?
an ancient Greek philosopher who changed the nature of the field from natural sciences to ethics and politics
Who was
Niccolo Machiavelli
?
a famous political philosopher of the Italian Renaissance
Who was
Martin Heidegger
?
a German philosopher best known for his book,
Being and Time
, where he questioned the essence of being
Who was
John Stuart Mill
?
a 19th-century English philosopher and economist who advoacted liberal political thought
Who was
Karl Marx
?
an initial follower of Hegel, a German philosopher who took some of Hegel's ideas and transformed them into communism
Who was
John Locke
?
an English empiricist
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2011-03-11T23:51:29Z
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