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Nagarjuna

Nagarjuna was a pivotal figure in early Buddhist philosophy. He developed the Madhyamaka school, exploring the concept o...

Indian Ancient Buddhist Emptiness

9.7 Brilliant

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Adi Shankara

Adi Shankara was an Indian philosopher of the 8th century who systematized Advaita Vedanta, teaching nondual identity of...

Indian Medieval Vedanta Metaphysics

9.4 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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Vasubandhu

Vasubandhu was an Indian Buddhist philosopher of the 4th or 5th century whose Abhidharmakosha and Yogacara works shaped...

Indian Ancient Buddhist Yogacara

8.8 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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Patanjali

Patanjali was an ancient Indian author credited with the Yoga Sutra, a concise text that organized classical yoga around...

Indian Yoga Ancient Mind

8.7 Great

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Ramanuja

Ramanuja was an Indian theologian of the 11th or 12th century who founded Vishishtadvaita Vedanta and defended devotion...

Indian Medieval Vedanta Theology

8.6 Great

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Dharmakirti

Dharmakirti was an Indian Buddhist philosopher of the 7th century whose Pramanavarttika became a major work on logic and...

Indian Medieval Epistemology Buddhist

8.5 Great

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B. R. Ambedkar

B. R. Ambedkar was an Indian jurist and social philosopher, chief architect of India's 1950 Constitution and a major cri...

Indian Law Politics Justice

8.5 Great

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Mohandas K. Gandhi

Mohandas K. Gandhi was an Indian political and ethical thinker, notable for satyagraha, the nonviolent resistance used i...

Indian Politics Nonviolence Ethics

8.4 Great

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Dignaga

Dignaga was an Indian Buddhist logician of the 5th or 6th century who helped found Buddhist epistemology with theories o...

Logic Indian Ancient Buddhist

8.2 Great

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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is an Indian literary theorist and philosopher, known for the 1988 essay Can the Subaltern Sp...

Language Indian Feminism Postcolonial

8.0 Great

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Ludwig Feuerbach

Ludwig Feuerbach was a German philosopher, notable for The Essence of Christianity (1841), which treated theology as a p...

German Humanism Religion Materialism

8.0 Great

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Kumarila Bhatta

Kumarila Bhatta was an Indian Mimamsa philosopher of the 7th or 8th century who defended Vedic authority and a realist t...

Indian Medieval Epistemology Mimamsa

7.9 Good

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Kanada

Kanada was an ancient Indian philosopher credited with the Vaisheshika school, which classified reality through categori...

Indian Ancient Metaphysics Vaisesika

7.7 Good

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Gautama Akshapada

Gautama Akshapada was an ancient Indian philosopher credited with the Nyaya Sutra, a foundational text on logic, debate,...

Logic Indian Ancient Nyaya

7.7 Good

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Keiji Nishitani

Keiji Nishitani was a Japanese Kyoto School philosopher, noted for Religion and Nothingness (1961) and dialogue between...

Japanese Nihilism Religion Kyoto School

7.7 Good

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D. T. Suzuki

D. T. Suzuki was a Japanese Buddhist scholar, influential for introducing Zen to English readers through essays and lect...

Japanese Comparative Zen Religion

7.6 Good

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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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Sri Aurobindo

Sri Aurobindo was an Indian philosopher and spiritual thinker, known for Integral Yoga and The Life Divine, published in...

Evolution Indian Vedanta Spirituality

7.5 Good