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Also Known As	Harold Arthur Prichard
Born	October 30, 1871 • London • England
Died	December 29, 1947 (aged 76) • Oxford • England
Subjects Of Study	deontological ethics

Immanuel Kant

German philosopher

Henry Sidgwick

British philosopher

Richard Price

British philosopher

Joseph Butler

British bishop and philosopher

Joseph Hall

English bishop, philosopher, and satirist

Henry More

British poet and philosopher

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British philosopher and historian

William Paley

British philosopher and priest

Stephen Edelston Toulmin

British philosopher

R.B. Braithwaite

British philosopher

Aristotle

Greek philosopher

Socrates

Greek philosopher

Plato

Greek philosopher

St. Augustine

Christian bishop and theologian

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

German philosopher

Benedict de Spinoza

Dutch-Jewish philosopher

Adam Smith

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David Hume

Scottish philosopher

John Stuart Mill

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Friedrich Nietzsche

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