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List of Famous Philosophers

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This project is dedicated to listing and exploring the lives and works of the most ancient philosophers like Plato and Aristotle to the most recent like Cometan.

Philosophers of Antiquity

  • Plato
  • Aristotle
  • Epicurus
  • Heraclitus / Parmenides
  • Epictetus
  • Marcus Aurelius
  • Seneca

Philosophers of the Middle Ages

  • St. Augustine of Hippo
  • St. Thomas Aquinas

Modern Philosophers

  • Descartes
  • Diderot
  • Fichte
  • Hegel
  • Hume
  • Hobbes
  • Immanuel Kant
  • Søren Kierkegaard
  • Leibniz
  • Locke
  • Machiavelli
  • Marx
  • Montaigne
  • Montesquieu
  • Nietzsche
  • Pascal
  • Rousseau
  • Sade
  • Schopenhauer
  • Smith
  • Spinoza
  • Stuart Mill
  • Tocqueville
  • Voltaire

Contemporary philosophers

  • Adorno / Horkheimer
  • Arendt
  • Bachelard
  • Baudrillard
  • Bourdieu
  • Camus
  • De Beauvoir
  • Derrida
  • Dewey
  • Durkheim
  • Foucault
  • Freud
  • Habermas
  • Hayek
  • Heidegger
  • Husserl
  • Nozick
  • Karl Popper
  • Rawls
  • Ricoeur
  • Sartre
  • Sloterdijk
  • Walzer

Postmodern Philosophers

  • Cometan, founder of Astronism, Astronic philosophy, and the branch of philosophy called cosmontology, also referred to as cosmic philosophy