Philosopher

A philosopher is a person devoted to studying and producing results in philosophy. The word, "philosopher," literally means "lover of wisdom." ==Popular Western philosophers in (approximate) historical order==
{| id="toc" style="margin: 0 2em 0 2em;" |- | style="background:#ccccff" align="center" | This article is part of the Influential Western Philosophers series |- | align="center" style="font-size: 90%;" | Pre-Socratic philosophy | Socrates | Plato | Aristotle | Epicureans | Stoics | Plotinus | Pyrrho | Cicero | Augustine of Hippo | Anicius Manlius Severinus Bo�thius | Al-Farabi | Anselm of Canterbury | Peter Abelard | Averroes | Maimonides | Thomas Aquinas | Albertus Magnus | Duns Scotus | Ramon Llull | William of Ockham | Giovanni Pico della Mirandola | Marsilio Ficino | Michel de Montaigne | Ren� Descartes | Thomas Hobbes | Blaise Pascal | Baruch Spinoza | John Locke | Nicolas Malebranche | Gottfried Leibniz | Giambattista Vico | Julien Offray de La Mettrie | George Berkeley | Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu | David Hume | Voltaire | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Denis Diderot | Johann Gottfried Herder | Immanuel Kant | Johann Georg Hamann | Jeremy Bentham | Friedrich Schleiermacher | Johann Gottlieb Fichte | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling | Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel | Arthur Schopenhauer | S�ren Kierkegaard | Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach | Henry David Thoreau | Ralph Waldo Emerson | John Stuart Mill | Karl Marx | Mikhail Bakunin | Friedrich Nietzsche | Vladimir Solovyov (philosopher) | William James | Wilhelm Dilthey | Charles Sanders Peirce | Gottlob Frege | Edmund Husserl | Henri Bergson | Ernst Cassirer | John Dewey | Benedetto Croce | Giovanni Gentile | Jos� Ortega y Gasset | Alfred North Whitehead | Bertrand Russell | Ludwig Wittgenstein | Ernst Bloch | Julius Evola | Georg Luk�cs | Martin Heidegger | Rudolf Carnap | Georges Bataille | Theodor Adorno | Simone Weil | Jean-Paul Sartre | Ayn Rand | Simone de Beauvoir | Maurice Merleau-Ponty | Max Horkheimer | Hannah Arendt | Albert Camus | Cornelius Castoriadis |} {| id="toc" style="margin: 0 2em 0 2em;" |- | style="background:#ccccff" align="center" | This article is part of The Contemporary Philosophers series |- | align="left" style="background:#ccccff; font-size: 85%;" | Analytic philosophy philosophers: |- | align="center" style="font-size: 90%;" | Simon Blackburn | Ned Block | David Chalmers | Gregory Currie | Patricia Churchland | Paul Churchland | Donald Davidson (philosopher) | Daniel Dennett | Francis Okechukwu Ohanyido|Jerry Fodor | Susan Haack | Judith Butler | Olly Hewitt | Jaegwon Kim | Saul Kripke | Thomas Samuel Kuhn | Bryan Magee | Ruth Barcan Marcus | Colin McGinn | Thomas Nagel | Robert Nozick | Martha Nussbaum | Alvin Plantinga | Karl Popper | Hilary Putnam | W. V. Quine | John Rawls | Richard Rorty | Roger Scruton | Peter Singer | John Searle | Charles Taylor (philosopher) |- | align="left" style="background:#ccccff; font-size: 85%;" | Continental philosophy philosophers: |- | align="center" style="font-size: 90%;" | Louis Althusser | Giorgio Agamben | Roland Barthes | Jean Baudrillard | Isaiah Berlin | Maurice Blanchot | Pierre Bourdieu | H�l�ne Cixous | Guy Debord | Gilles Deleuze | Jacques Derrida | Gerhard Anna Concic-Kaucic | Michel Foucault | Hans-Georg Gadamer | J�rgen Habermas | Werner Hamacher | Julia Kristeva | Henri Lefebvre | Claude L�vi-Strauss | Emmanuel Levinas | Jean-Fran�ois Lyotard | Paul de Man | Jean-Luc Nancy | Antonio Negri | Paul Ricoeur | Michel Serres | Paul Virilio | Slavoj Zizek |} Not listed above: (some 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 -- Mao Zedong ==Philosophers: listed by philosophical school== See Philosophical Movements. ==Nicknames of Medieval Philosophers== Several medieval philosophers have been given Latin nicknames -- some by their contemporaries, others by historians. For example: *Francis Mayron - ''Doctor acutus'', the acute doctor, or ''Doctor illuminatus'' *St. Thomas Aquinas - ''Doctor Angelicus'', the angelic doctor, or ''Doctor Communis'' *William of Ockham - ''Doctor Invincibilis'' *Alexander of Hales - ''Doctor Irrefragibilis'' *Roger Bacon - ''Doctor Mirabilis'', the wonderful doctor *John Bassol - ''Doctor Ordinatissimus'', the most methodical doctor *St. Bonaventure - ''Doctor Seraphicus'' *Henry Goethals (''Hendricus Bonicollius'') - ''Doctor Solemnis'', the solemn doctor *Richard Middleton (Lord Chancellor) - the solid doctor, or the profound doctor *Duns Scotus - ''Doctor Subtilis'', the discriminating doctor, or ''Doctor Marianus'' *Albertus Magnus - ''Doctor Universalis'' *Durandus de Sancto Portiano - the most resolute doctor *Thomas Bradwardine - the profound doctor *Jean Ruysbroeck (''Joannes Ruysbrokius'') - the divine doctor or ecstatic doctor See Also the articles at: Philosophy, Eastern philosophy, Epistemology, Ethics, Metaphysics, Aesthetics, Deconstruction, Ontology, Logic, Reason, Mathematicians, Feminism, Scientists, List of philosophers, and a fuller listing at :Category:Philosophers. ---- ''The Philosopher'' is also the nickname of Joseph Haydn's ''Symphony No. 22 (Haydn)''. 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Philosopher

== Eastern == Do we want Eastern philosophy mixed in with the Western ones, or in a seperate section? User:Kwertii 01:29 17 Jul 2003 (UTC) == Order == Should we list the philosophers in alphabetical order last-name first, or first name first? I prefer last-name first, it makes it easier to see that the order is alphabetical. Any preferences? -- Simon_J_Kissane :I don't have a strong opinion. You have a good point. But two relevant considerations are that others have made lists of people, and they didn't list last names first (so you're being inconsistent in format with others on Wikipedia), that listing last names first is apt to confuse newcomers into thinking that we'll want in ''titles'' to put last names first. Welcome, anyway, User:SJK, whoever you are. :-) --:LMS ::Well, I already changed it to be in that order; if anyone wants I can swap it around again. -- User:SJK == Islamic == Someone added Avicenna a second time (in the wrong part of the alphabet). I'm correcting; I'm also adding the full and properly-spelt names of several Arabic philosophers (Avicenna = Ibn Sina, Averroes = Ibn Rushd). If anyone knows the appropriate convention for alphabetizing these (starting with the Ibn or the Sina?) please correct them. :Arabic?? Avicenna was Persian and Averroes was Spanish! ::Yeah, but both were Muslim and wrote almost entirely in Arabic. At any rate, their placement as Eastern Philosophers is awfully problematic. As the entry on Eastern Philosophy states, "In the West, the term Eastern philosophy refers very broadly to the various philosophical systems of East Asia." As you accurately (if only in the strictest sense) pointed out, these two are hardly from East Asia. I am going to add an "Islamic Philosopher" entry.--User:69.143.128.152 02:12, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC) Come to think of it, doesn't the whole list unnecessarily replicate the List of philosophers page? I think if this page is to be useful, it should discuss what it is to be a philosopher; philosophers' idea of the role of the philosopher in society (Plato philosopher king vs. Socrates gadfly), etc.. --User:Max power 02:33, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC) == Templates == Hi all, I just added the templates to the Popular Western philosophers section; if someone doesn't like the look this creates, could they at least please use all the names in both templates, or alternately update the templates, with the exception perhaps of names like Ayn Rand (Contemporary philosophers are just those that are either alive or passed away within the last two decades)? It's a bit awkward having templates that name influential philosophers, which do not coincide with a list of "popular" philosophers. PS Since Avicenna and other Islamic philosophers are more relevant to Western philosophy, I moved them there, though we could also create a list of Islamic philosophers instead. -- User:Simonides 21:16, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC) == announcing policy proposal == This is just to inform people that I want Wikipedia to accept a general policy that BC and AD represent a Christian Point of View and should be used only when they are appropriate, that is, in the context of expressing or providing an account of a Christian point of view. In other contexts, I argue that they violate our NPOV policy and we should use BCE and CE instead. See Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/BCE-CE Debate for the detailed proposal. User:Slrubenstein | User talk:Slrubenstein 22:55, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

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