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^A – For more information about this person's contribution to philosophy see her entry in Margaret Atherton's Women Philosophers of the Early Modern Period. Hackett; 1994. ISBN 0-87220-259-3 ^B – For more information about this person's contribution to philosophy see her entry in Jacqueline Broad's Women Philosophers of the Seventeenth ...
South African philosopher and author [8] Charles Hartshorne: 1897–2000: 103: American pioneer of process theology [9] Karl Holzamer: 1906–2007: 100: German philosopher and director general of ZDF [10] Benoît Lacroix: 1915–2016: 100: Canadian theologian and philosopher [11] Francisco Miró Quesada Cantuarias: 1918–2019: 100: Peruvian ...
She was one of the first women to achieve an academic career in philosophy and the first woman to be popularly and professionally recognized as an American philosopher. Langer is best known for her 1942 book entitled Philosophy in a New Key. It argued that there is a basic and pervasive human need to symbolize, to invent meanings, and to invest ...
Ancient Greek philosophy began in Miletus with the pre-Socratic philosopher Thales [1] [2] and lasted through Late Antiquity. Some of the most famous and influential philosophers of all time were from the ancient Greek world, including Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. ↵Abbreviations used in this list: c. = circa; fl. = flourished
[10] Antonio Genovesi: 1712–1769: Italian: Writer on philosophy and political economy. Edward Gibbon: 1737–1794: English: Historian best known for his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Johann Wolfgang Goethe: 1749–1832: German: Closely identified with Enlightenment values, progressing from Sturm und Drang ("Storm and Stress"); leader ...
List of philosophers born in the 1st through 10th centuries; List of philosophers born in the 11th through 14th centuries; List of philosophers born in the 15th and 16th centuries; List of philosophers born in the 17th century; List of philosophers born in the 18th century; List of philosophers born in the 19th century
Euclid of Megara (/ ˈ juː k l ɪ d /; Ancient Greek: Εὐκλείδης Eucleides; c. 435 – c. 365 BC) [a] was a Greek Socratic philosopher who founded the Megarian school of philosophy. He was a pupil of Socrates in the late 5th century BC, and was present at his death. He held the supreme good to be one, eternal and unchangeable, and ...
Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia (US: / k ɔːr ˌ n ɑːr oʊ p ɪ ˈ s k oʊ p i ə /, [3] Italian: [ˈɛːlena luˈkrɛttsja korˈnaːro piˈskɔːpja]; 5 June 1646 – 26 July 1684) or Elena Lucrezia Corner (Venetian: [koɾˈnɛɾ], Italian:), also known in English as Helen Cornaro, was a Venetian philosopher of noble descent who in 1678 became one of the first women to receive an academic ...