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Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche was a prominent German philosopher known for his challenging theories regarding morality and truth....

German Existentialism Genealogy Morality

9.7 Brilliant

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John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill was an English philosopher whose 1859 On Liberty defended individual freedom and whose utilitarianism s...

Ethics British Liberty Utilitarianism

9.3 Excellent

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Epicurus

Epicurus was a Greek philosopher who founded the Garden in Athens in 306 BCE and made pleasure, friendship, and freedom...

Ethics Ancient Greek Epicureanism

9.2 Excellent

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Genevan philosopher whose 1762 Social Contract argued that legitimate political authority re...

French Education Politics Enlightenment

9.2 Excellent

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Mencius

Mencius was a Chinese Confucian philosopher of the 4th century BCE who argued that human nature is good and shaped later...

Ethics Ancient Chinese Confucianism

9.1 Excellent

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Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne was a French Renaissance essayist whose Essays, first published in 1580, made skeptical self-examina...

French Renaissance Essays Skepticism

9.1 Excellent

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Soren Kierkegaard

Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher and theologian whose 1843 Either/Or explored choice, anxiety, faith, and the...

Danish Ethics Existentialism Religion

9.1 Excellent

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Derek Parfit

Derek Parfit was a British philosopher noted for Reasons and Persons (1984), which reshaped debates on identity, rationa...

Ethics Identity British Reasons

9.1 Excellent

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Gilles Deleuze

Gilles Deleuze was a French philosopher whose work on difference, desire, and cinema shaped postwar thought, including D...

French Metaphysics Continental Difference

9.1 Excellent

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Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida was a French philosopher, born in Algeria in 1930, known for deconstruction and major works such as Of G...

Language French Metaphysics Deconstruction

9.0 Excellent

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Epictetus

Epictetus was a Greek Stoic philosopher, formerly enslaved, whose Discourses and Enchiridion teach control over judgment...

Ethics Ancient Roman Stoicism

8.9 Great

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Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius was Roman emperor from 161 to 180 CE and a Stoic philosopher whose Meditations records private ethical r...

Ethics Ancient Roman Stoicism

8.9 Great

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Voltaire

Voltaire was a French Enlightenment writer and philosopher whose 1759 Candide satirized optimism and defended tolerance,...

French Religion Enlightenment Liberty

8.8 Great

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Emmanuel Levinas

Emmanuel Levinas was a Lithuanian-born French philosopher notable for making ethics a first philosophy in Totality and I...

French Ethics Phenomenology Otherness

8.7 Great

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Paul Ricoeur

Paul Ricoeur was a French philosopher whose hermeneutics linked phenomenology, language, and narrative identity in works...

French Narrative Ethics Hermeneutics

8.4 Great

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Peter Abelard

Peter Abelard was a 12th-century French scholastic philosopher whose Sic et Non used conflicting authorities to train di...

French Logic Medieval Ethics

8.2 Great

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Simone Weil

Simone Weil was a French philosopher and social critic, notable for writings on attention, affliction, labor, and mystic...

French Politics Ethics Mysticism

8.2 Great

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Edith Stein

Edith Stein was a German Jewish phenomenologist and Catholic philosopher, known for work on empathy and canonized by Pop...

German Ethics Religion Phenomenology

7.6 Good

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Miguel de Unamuno

Miguel de Unamuno was a Spanish philosopher and writer, notable for The Tragic Sense of Life (1913) and existential refl...

Spanish Literature Existentialism Religion

7.5 Good

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Christine de Pizan

Christine de Pizan was a French writer born in 1364 whose Book of the City of Ladies defended women's learning and virtu...

French Medieval Ethics Feminism

7.2 Good