Andō Shōeki

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In this aerial photo, structures are damaged and destroyed October 15, 2005 in Balakot, Pakistan. It is estimated that 90% of the city of Balakot was leveled by the earthquake. The death toll in the 7.6 magnitude earthquake that struck northern Pakistan on October 8, 2005 is believed to be 38,000 with at least 1,300 more dead in Indian Kashmir. SEE CONTENT NOTES.

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Flourished	c.1750 -
Notable Works	“Shizen shin’ei dō”

Nishida Kitarō

Japanese philosopher

Shinran

Japanese Buddhist philosopher

Yamaga Sokō

Japanese military strategist

Inoue Tetsujirō

Japanese philosopher

Hayashi Razan

Japanese scholar

Watsuji Tetsurō

Japanese philosopher and historian

Itō Jinsai

Japanese scholar

Kumazawa Banzan

Japanese philosopher

Tanabe Hajime

Japanese philosopher

Inoue Enryō

Japanese philosopher

Hatano Seiichi

Japanese scholar

Tanaka Ōdō

Japanese philosopher

Muro Kyūsō

Japanese scholar

Miura Baien

Japanese economist and philosopher

Nishi Amane

Japanese philosopher

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Zinovyev

Russian writer and scholar

Charles Bray

British manufacturer

Aristotle

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Socrates

Greek philosopher

Plato

Greek philosopher

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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.

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