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Born c.500 BCE • Clazomenae • Anatolia
Died c.428 BCE • Lampsacus
Subjects Of Study cosmology • eclipse • nous

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Anaximenes Of Miletus
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Heraclitus
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Aristotle
Aristotle
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Thales of Miletus
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Anaximander
Anaximander
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Empedocles
Greek philosopher and scholar
Emanuel Swedenborg
Emanuel Swedenborg
Swedish philosopher
Zeno of Elea
Greek philosopher and mathematician
Xenophanes
Greek poet and philosopher
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
German philosopher
Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger
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Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
British mathematician and philosopher
Helmholtz.
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno
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Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling
German philosopher
Erwin Schrödinger
Erwin Schrödinger
Austrian physicist
Martin Rees
Martin Rees
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Mullā Ṣadrā
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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Socrates
Socrates
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Agathon (centre) greeting guests in Plato's Symposium, oil on canvas by Anselm Feuerbach, 1869; in the Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany.
Philosophy 101