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Søren Kierkegaard

Søren Kierkegaard was a 19th-century Danish thinker whose work profoundly shaped Western philosophy. He explored themes...

19TH Century Ethics Existentialism Western

9.3 Excellent

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Theodor Adorno

Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969) was a German philosopher, sociologist, musicologist, and leading member of the Frankfurt S...

Aesthetics 20TH Century Critical Theory Western

8.3 Great

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Erasmus

Desiderius Erasmus was a Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, theologian, and classical scholar who lived around...

Renaissance Ethics Western Humanism

8.1 Great

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György Lukács

György Lukács was a Hungarian philosopher, literary critic, and Marxist theorist whose work influenced political philoso...

Aesthetics 20TH Century Political Western

8.0 Great

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Friedrich Schleiermacher

Friedrich Schleiermacher was an 18th–19th-century German theologian and philosopher who founded modern hermeneutics and...

19TH Century Ethics Western Theology

7.8 Good

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Jean-François Lyotard

Jean-François Lyotard was a French philosopher who lived from 1924 to 1998 and wrote on knowledge, politics, aesthetics,...

Aesthetics 20TH Century Political Western

7.8 Good

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Charles Mills

Charles W. Mills was a Jamaican-born political philosopher who lived from 1951 to 2021 and worked primarily in the Unite...

Contemporary Ethics Political Western

7.8 Good

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Gaston Bachelard

Gaston Bachelard was a French philosopher who lived from 1884 to 1962 and wrote influential works on epistemology, the h...

Aesthetics 20TH Century Western Epistemology

7.7 Good

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Georg Henrik von Wright

Georg Henrik von Wright was a Finnish philosopher and logician who lived from 1916 to 2003 and worked within the analyti...

Logic 20TH Century Ethics Western

7.6 Good

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Michael Walzer

Michael Walzer is a prominent American political theorist associated with the communitarian school of thought, serving a...

20TH Century Ethics Political Western

7.5 Good

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Simon Blackburn

Simon Blackburn is a British analytic philosopher, born in 1944, whose work addresses metaethics, philosophy of language...

Contemporary Ethics Western Analytic

7.5 Good

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Georges Bataille

Georges Bataille (1897-1962) was a French writer, philosopher, and librarian whose interdisciplinary work spanned litera...

Aesthetics 20TH Century Ethics Western

7.4 Good

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John Finnis

John Finnis (born 1940) is an Australian legal and moral philosopher who has spent much of his career at the University...

Contemporary Ethics Political Western

7.4 Good

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María Lugones

María Lugones (1944-2020) was an Argentine-American philosopher and feminist theorist whose work focused on issues of ra...

Contemporary Ethics Feminism Western

7.4 Good

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Maurice Blanchot

Maurice Blanchot was a highly influential French writer, philosopher, and literary theorist whose work profoundly shaped...

20TH Century Literature Ethics Western

7.3 Good

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Philippe Van Parijs

Philippe Van Parijs is a Belgian political philosopher and economist internationally recognized as a leading academic ad...

Contemporary Social Ethics Political

7.3 Good

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Seyla Benhabib

Seyla Benhabib is a prominent Turkish-American political philosopher and academic specializing in critical theory, femin...

Contemporary Ethics Feminism Political

7.3 Good

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Jonathan Dancy

British philosopher Jonathan Dancy (born 1946) is recognized as the founder of moral particularism, a theory in ethics t...

Contemporary Ethics Western Epistemology

7.2 Good

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Susan Wolf

Susan Wolf is an American philosopher whose work addresses ethics, moral psychology, free will, responsibility, and the...

Contemporary Ethics Western Analytic

7.1 Good

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Herbert Spencer

Herbert Spencer was a 19th-century British philosopher who applied evolutionary theory to society, coining the phrase 's...

Social 19TH Century Ethics Western

6.8 Fair