1.
Socrates
42 points - added 12 years ago by Sakeithia -
2.
Plato
Was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.
38 points - added 12 years ago by Sakeithia -
3.
Aristotle
Was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, linguistics, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology.
33 points - added 12 years ago by Sakeithia -
4.
Rousseau
30 points - added 12 years ago by Sakeithia -
5.
Descartes
He has been dubbed the 'Father of Modern Philosophy', and much subsequent Western philosophy is a response to his writings, which are studied closely to this day.
25 points - added 12 years ago by Sakeithia -
6.
Kierkegaard
15 points - added 12 years ago by Sakeithia -
7.
Kant
Was a German philosopher from Königsberg (today Kaliningrad of Russia), researching, lecturing and writing on philosophy and anthropology at the end of the 18th Century Enlightenment.
13 points - added 12 years ago by Sakeithia -
8.
Hume
He was one of the most important figures in the history of Western philosophy and the Scottish Enlightenment. Hume is often grouped with John Locke, George Berkeley, and a handful of others as a British Empiricist.[
12 points - added 12 years ago by Sakeithia -
9.
Hegel
12 points - added 12 years ago by Sakeithia -
10.
Frege
11 points - added 12 years ago by Sakeithia -
11.
Mill
11 points - added 12 years ago by Sakeithia -
12.
Wittgenstein
10 points - added 12 years ago by Sakeithia -
13.
Locke
10 points - added 12 years ago by Sakeithia -
14.
Spinoza
10 points - added 12 years ago by Sakeithia -
15.
Fredrick Nietche
8 points - added 12 years ago by redbarron80 -
16.
Leibniz
8 points - added 12 years ago by Sakeithia -
17.
Augustine
6 points - added 12 years ago by Sakeithia -
18.
Hobbes
4 points - added 12 years ago by Sakeithia -
19.
Aquinas
2 points - added 12 years ago by Sakeithia -
20.
Marx
-4 points - added 12 years ago by Sakeithia -
21.
Nietzsche
-11 points - added 12 years ago by Sakeithia -
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