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John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill was a prominent British philosopher known for his advocacy of liberty and his development of utilitaria...

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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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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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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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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Bernard Williams

Bernard Williams was a British moral philosopher known for Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy (1985) and critiques of u...

Politics Ethics British Moral Psychology

8.9 Great

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Zeno of Citium

Zeno of Citium was a Cypriot philosopher who founded Stoicism in Athens around 300 BCE, teaching virtue in accord with n...

Ethics Ancient Greek Stoicism

8.8 Great

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Xunzi

Xunzi was a Chinese Confucian philosopher of the 3rd century BCE who argued that human nature is bad and requires ritual...

Ethics Ancient Chinese Confucianism

8.8 Great

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Robert Nozick

Robert Nozick was an American political philosopher whose Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974) defended libertarian rights...

American Politics Ethics Libertarianism

8.8 Great

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Martha Nussbaum

Martha Nussbaum is an American philosopher noted for the capabilities approach, developed with Amartya Sen, and for work...

American Politics Ethics Capabilities

8.7 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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Martha C. Nussbaum

Martha C. Nussbaum is an American philosopher whose capabilities approach links ethics, law, and development policy, not...

American Law Ethics Capabilities

8.7 Great

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Frantz Fanon

Frantz Fanon was a Martinican psychiatrist and philosopher whose 1961 book The Wretched of the Earth shaped anticolonial...

Politics Race Martinican Decolonial

8.6 Great

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Enrique Dussel

Enrique Dussel is an Argentine-Mexican philosopher and historian known for liberation philosophy, developed in Latin Ame...

Politics Ethics Liberation Argentine

7.4 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

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Walter Mignolo

Walter Mignolo is an Argentine semiotician and decolonial theorist, noted for work on coloniality and The Darker Side of...

Epistemology Modernity Argentine Decolonial

7.2 Good

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Harriet Taylor Mill

Harriet Taylor Mill was an English philosopher and women's rights advocate who influenced John Stuart Mill and co-wrote...

Ethics Feminism British Liberty

7.1 Good

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Mary Astell

Mary Astell was an English philosopher whose 1694 Serious Proposal to the Ladies argued for women's education and ration...

Ethics Feminism English Early Modern

7.0 Good