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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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Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell was a British philosopher and logician who co-wrote Principia Mathematica and won the 1950 Nobel Prize...

Language Logic British Analytic

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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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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H. L. A. Hart

H. L. A. Hart was a British legal philosopher, known for The Concept of Law (1961) and the rule of recognition in modern...

Law British Rights Positivism

8.7 Great

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Jeremy Bentham

Jeremy Bentham was an English philosopher who founded classical utilitarianism and promoted legal reform through the gre...

Law Ethics British Utilitarianism

8.6 Great

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Peter Singer

Peter Singer is an Australian moral philosopher noted for Animal Liberation (1975) and for influential utilitarian argum...

Australian Ethics Animals Utilitarianism

8.6 Great

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Elizabeth Anscombe

Elizabeth Anscombe was a British philosopher whose Intention (1957) transformed action theory and whose work helped revi...

Action Ethics British Analytic

8.5 Great

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G. E. Moore

G. E. Moore was a British analytic philosopher whose 1903 Principia Ethica challenged naturalistic ethics and defended c...

Ethics British Analytic Common Sense

8.2 Great

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Philippa Foot

Philippa Foot was a British philosopher central to virtue ethics, known for natural goodness theory and for introducing...

Ethics British Naturalism Virtue

8.1 Great

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Onora O'Neill

Onora O'Neill is a British philosopher noted for Kantian ethics, justice, and trust, and served as President of the Brit...

Ethics British Justice Kantianism

7.9 Good

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Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch was an Irish-born British philosopher and novelist, noted for The Sovereignty of Good (1970) and moral atte...

Literature Ethics British Platonism

7.8 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