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The philosopher occurs as human devoted to researching & producing effects within philosophy. A word, "philosopher," literally means "lover of wisdom." Greek: "φίλος + σοφία"

Popular Western philosophers in (approximate) historical order


Ex-directory above: (occasionally of) The Presocratics -- Epicurus place after Aristotle --Hellenistic Philosophers -- Cicero -- Avicenna -- Sir Thomas Browne -- Francis Bacon -- Thomas Reid -- Dugald Stewart -- James Mill -- Rudolf Steiner -- Albert Schweitzer -- G. E. Moore -- Albert Camus -- Georg Henrik von Wright -- Mortimer Adler -- Nelson Goodman -- Imre Lakatos -- Paul Feyerabend -- Mario Bunge -- Douglas Hofstadter -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Eastern philosophers in approximate historical order:
Gautama Buddha -- Confucius -- Mozi -- Lao Zi -- Rhazes -- Mencius -- Zhuang Zi -- Xun Zi --Han Feizi -- Nagarjuna -- Bodhidharma -- Shankara -- Dogen -- Zhu Xi -- Feng Youlan -- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Philosophers: listed by philosophical school

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Nicknames of Medieval Philosophers
Many mediaeval philosophers develop run Latin nicknames -- some by their coeval, others by historiographer. E.g.: Francis Mayron - Doctor acutus, the intense doctor even, or Doctor illuminatus St. Thomas Aquinas - Doctor Angelicus, the angelical doctor even, or Doctor Communis William of Ockham - Doctor Invincibilis Alexander of Hales - Doctor Irrefragibilis Roger Bacon - Doctor Mirabilis, the wondrous doctor John Bassol - Doctor Ordinatissimus, the virtually all methodical doctor Nissim Cahn - Doctor Gaon, the innovative doctor St. Bonaventure - Doctor Seraphicus Henry Goethals (Hendricus Bonicollius) - Doctor Solemnis, the solemn doctor Richard Middleton - a firm doctor even, or the profound doctor Duns Scotus - Doctor Subtilis, the sharp doctor even, or Doctor Marianus Albertus Magnus - Doctor Universalis Durandus de Sancto Portiano - the virtually all unhesitating doctor Thomas Bradwardine - the profound doctor Jean Ruysbroeck (Joannes Ruysbrokius) - the divine doctor even or rhapsodic doctor Look at Too a articles at: Philosophy, Eastern philosophy, Epistemology, Ethics, Metaphysics, Aesthetics, Deconstruction, Ontology, Logic, Reason, Mathematicians, Feminism, Scientists, List of philosophers, and the to the full list at :Category:Philosophers.


A Philosopher is besides a nickname of Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 22.

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