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Also Known As	Peter Albert David Singer
Born	July 6, 1946 (age 78) • Melbourne • Australia
Subjects Of Study	euthanasia • infanticide

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Holmes Rolston III

American philosopher and theologian

Aristotle

Greek philosopher

Socrates

Greek philosopher

Plato

Greek philosopher

St. Augustine

Christian bishop and theologian

Immanuel Kant

German philosopher

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

German philosopher

Benedict de Spinoza

Dutch-Jewish philosopher

Adam Smith

Scottish philosopher

David Hume

Scottish philosopher

John Stuart Mill

British philosopher and economist

Friedrich Nietzsche

German philosopher

Arthur Schopenhauer

German philosopher

Bernard Williams

English philosopher

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

German philosopher

Alasdair MacIntyre

Scottish-born philosopher

Epicurus

Greek philosopher

Max Scheler

German philosopher

Emmanuel Lévinas

French philosopher

Democritus

Greek philosopher

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