Philosopher

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  1. 3. Student of the previous figure; wrote "The Republic"
  2. 6. British thinker known for "Two Concepts of Liberty"
  3. 8. Chinese sage; foundational figure of Taoism; wrote the "Tao Te Ching"
  4. 9. Ancient Greek advocate of pleasure, tranquility, and simple living
  5. 12. Bulgarian-French psychoanalytic critic; worked on semiotics
  6. 15. Taoist thinker known for his parables and dream of a butterfly
  7. 18. Chinese sage focused on ethics, social harmony, and "The Analects"
  8. 19. Ancient Greek thinker known for questioning and his method of inquiry
  9. 23. French thinker; explored concepts of truth and being through mathematics
  10. 25. Roman Stoic philosopher and advisor to Emperor Nero
  11. 28. Indian economist; known for work on welfare and development
  12. 30. German idealist known for dialectical method and "Phenomenology of Spirit"
  13. 33. Scottish skeptic known for empiricism and "A Treatise of Human Nature"
  14. 35. German theorist of class struggle; co-wrote "The Communist Manifesto"
  15. 37. American philosopher focused on ethics and human capabilities
  16. 40. German thinker; known for "Being and Time" and concepts of "being"
  17. 41. German-born thinker focused on totalitarianism and "The Human Condition"
  18. 42. German thinker who explored ethics and metaphysics in "Critique of Pure Reason"
  19. 43. American political theorist; wrote "A Theory of Justice"
  20. 44. Advocate of utilitarianism and individual liberty in "On Liberty"
  21. 45. German existentialist; declared "God is dead" and discussed "Übermensch"
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  1. 1. Pessimistic German thinker focused on "will" as a driving force
  2. 2. Slovenian thinker; known for Lacanian psychoanalysis and popular cultural criticism
  3. 4. French theorist of power, knowledge, and social institutions
  4. 5. French thinker famous for "Cogito, ergo sum" ("I think, therefore I am")
  5. 7. Catholic theologian; reconciled faith with reason in "Summa Theologica"
  6. 10. Also known as "The Buddha"; Indian figure of enlightenment
  7. 11. Roman emperor known for "Meditations" and Stoic ideals
  8. 13. Austrian thinker; worked on language in "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus"
  9. 14. French feminist; wrote "The Second Sex"
  10. 16. British logician and co-author of "Principia Mathematica"
  11. 17. French existentialist and author of "Being and Nothingness"
  12. 20. Australian ethicist; known for "Animal Liberation"
  13. 21. Scottish moral theorist; known for "After Virtue"
  14. 22. English thinker; key ideas on government and human rights
  15. 24. Danish figure; regarded as the father of existentialism
  16. 26. Tutor of Alexander the Great; founder of the Lyceum
  17. 27. Dutch thinker who connected God with nature; known for "Ethics"
  18. 29. French thinker on time and intuition; known for "Creative Evolution"
  19. 31. American gender theorist known for "Gender Trouble"
  20. 32. American pragmatist and critic of objective truth
  21. 34. Early Christian thinker; wrote "City of God" and "Confessions"
  22. 36. German critical theorist; worked on communicative rationality
  23. 38. Linguist and social critic known for work on language and politics
  24. 39. French theorist who developed deconstruction