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A philosopher is a person devoted to studying and producing results in philosophy. The word, "philosopher", literally means "lover of wisdom".
Popular Western philosophers in (approximate) historical order
The Presocratics -- Socrates -- Plato -- Aristotle -- Epicurus -- Hellenistic
Philosophy -- Cicero -- Augustine of Hippo -- Anselm --
Aquinas -- William of Ockham -- Francis Bacon -- Sir Thomas Browne--Thomas Hobbes -- René Descartes -- Nicolas Malebranche -- Baruch Spinoza -- Gottfried Leibniz --
Blaise Pascal -- John
Locke -- George Berkeley -- David Hume -- Thomas Reid -- Dugald Stewart -- Jean Jacques
Rousseau -- Montesquieu -- Voltaire -- Immanuel Kant -- Gottlieb
Fichte -- Georg Hegel -- James Mill -- John Stuart
Mill -- Karl Marx -- Arthur Schopenhauer -- Søren
Kierkegaard -- Friedrich Nietzsche -- Gottlob Frege -- Rudolf
Steiner -- Albert Schweizer -- Bertrand Russell -- Alfred
North Whitehead -- Karl Popper -- -- G. E. Moore -- Ludwig Wittgenstein --
Rudolph Carnap -- Jean-Paul Sartre -- Albert Camus -- Georg Henrik von Wright -- Mortimer Adler -- W. V. O. Quine -- Nelson Goodman -- Imre
Lakatos -- Ayn Rand -- Paul Feyerabend -- Mario Bunge -- Douglas Hofstadter -- Daniel Dennett -- Pierre
Teilhard de Chardin -- Simon Blackburn-- Paul Ricoeur
Eastern philosophers in approximate historical order:
Gautama Buddha -- Confucius -- Lao Zi -- Avicenna -- Rhazes -- Mencius -- Zhuang Zi -- Xun
Zi -- Bodhidharma -- Dogen --
Zhu Xi -- Feng Youlan
Philosophers: listed by philosophical school
See Philosophical Movements.
Nicknames of Medieval Philosophers
Several medieval philosophers have been given Latin nicknames by historians. For
example:
- Francis Mayron -
Doctor acutus, the acute doctor, or Doctor illuminatus
- St. Thomas Aquinas - Doctor Angelicus, the angelic doctor,
or Doctor Communis
- William of Ockham - Doctor Invincibilis
- Alexander of Hales - Doctor Irrefragibilis
- Roger Bacon - Doctor Mirabilis, the wonderful doctor
- John Bassol - Doctor
Ordinatissimus, the most methodical doctor
- St. Bonaventure - Doctor Seraphicus
- Henry Goethals
(Hendricus
Bonicollius) - Doctor Solemnis, the solemn doctor
- Richard Middleton -
the solid doctor, or the profound doctor
- Duns Scotus - Doctor Subtilis, the discriminating doctor, or
Doctor Marianus
- Albertus Magnus - Doctor Universalis
- Durandus de Sancto Portiano - the most resolute doctor
- Thomas Bradwardine - the profound doctor
- Jean Ruysbroeck
(Joannes Ruysbrokius) - the divine doctor
See Also the articles at: Philosophy, Eastern philosophy, Epistemology, Ethics, Metaphysics, Aesthetics, Ontology, Logic, Reason, Mathematicians, Scientists, List of philosophers, and a fuller listing at Category:Philosophers.
The Philosopher is also the nickname of Joseph
Haydn's Symphony No. 22.
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