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Thinkers
- Aristotle [r]: (384-322 BCE) Ancient Greek philosopher and scientist, and one of the most influential figures in the western world between 350 BCE and the sixteenth century. [e]
- Augustine of Hippo [r]: (November 13 354–August 28 430) Bishop and Doctor of the Church. [e]
- Averroës [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Jeremy Bentham [r]: (1748–1832) British utilitarian political philosopher. [e]
- Edmund Burke [r]: (1729–97) British political thinker who opposed the French Revolution and developed a coherent conservative philosophy. [e]
- Cicero [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Epicurus [r]: Ancient Greek philosopher who founded epicureanism. [e]
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel [r]: (1770–1831) German idealist philosopher, most famous for writings on Geist and dialectic. [e]
- Thomas Hobbes [r]: English political philosopher of the 17th century. [e]
- David Hume [r]: (1711—1776) Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian. [e]
- Immanuel Kant [r]: (1724–1804) German idealist and Enlightenment philosopher who tried to transcend empiricism and rationalism in the Critique of Pure Reason. [e]
- John Locke [r]: (1632–1704) English empiricist philosopher. [e]
- Niccolò Machiavelli [r]: (3 May 1469 – 21 June 1527) Italian philosopher and writer, considered one of the main founders of modern political science. [e]
- James Madison [r]: (1751–1836) Fourth U.S. President (from 1809 to 1817), author of some the Federalist Papers, Secretary of State, and one of the most influential U.S. founding fathers. [e]
- Karl Marx [r]: 19th century philosopher and economist. Creator of a theoretical foundation for Communism. [e]
- John Stuart Mill [r]: Leading 19th-century British philosopher who made major contributions to ethics, economics, and political philosophy. [e]
- Friedrich Nietzsche [r]: (1844–1900) German philosopher and writer who developed key concepts of morality, religion and the contemporary culture of Europe. [e]
- Thomas Paine [r]: (1737-1809) English writer, intellectual and revolutionary whose works were influential during the Enlightenment in the United States and Europe. [e]
- Pericles [r]: (circa 495-429 BCE) Athenian Statesman, General and Admiral. [e]
- Plato [r]: (circa 427-347 BCE) Ancient Greek philosopher, whose dialogues, supposedly recording conversations with Socrates, contain many of the debates central to Western philosophy. [e]
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau [r]: (1712–1778) French author and philosopher. [e]
- Socrates [r]: (ca. 470–399 BCE) Greek philosopher who is credited with laying the foundations of western philosophy; sentenced to death in Athens for heresy. [e]
- Voltaire [r]: The pen-name of François-Marie Arouet (1694-1778), a French writer and philosopher, who was one of the leading figures of The Enlightenment. [e]
Ideologies
- Fascism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Liberalism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Libertarianism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Racism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Nazism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Salafism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Sharia [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Socialism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Social democracy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Zionism [r]: Add brief definition or description