THE PHILOSOPHERS:

THE PHILOSOPHERS

1. Socrates (c. 470-399 BCE) - Ancient Greece
2. Plato (c. 427-347 BCE) - Ancient Greece
3. Aristotle (384-322 BCE) - Ancient Greece
4. Confucius (551-479 BCE) - Ancient China
5. St. Augustine of Hippo (354-430) - Roman Africa
6. René Descartes (1596-1650) - France
7. Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) - Prussia
8. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) - Germany
9. John Locke (1632-1704) - England
10. Karl Marx (1818-1883) - Germany
11. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) - Italy
12. Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) - Denmark
13. Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) - France
14. Laozi (6th century BCE) - Ancient China
15. Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) - France
16. Francis Bacon (1561-1626 - England
17. Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895 – 1986) - India
18. Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 – 1860) - Germany
19. Michel Foucault (1984-1984) - France
20. Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) - El Biar, French
21. John Rawls (1921-2002) - Maryland, USA
22. Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) - Wiltshire, England
23. Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) - Vienna, Austria
24. Edward W. Said (1935-20030, Jerusalem
25. Buddha (c.5-6 BCE) - Lumbini, Shakya Republic ( Nepal)
26. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) - Stuttgart, Württemberg, Holy Roman Empire
27. Bertrand Russel (1872-1970) - Trellech, Monmouthshire, UK
28. Zarathustra (1500 - 1000 BCE) - Iran
29. Albert Camus (1913-1960) - Mondovi, French Algeri
30. Jesus Christ (b. 4 B.C. and 6 B.C) - Bethlehem
31. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778,) - Geneva
32. Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972) - Ghana
33. Leopold Sédar Senghor (1906-2001)- Senegal
34. Ayi Kwei Armah (born 1938) - Ghana
35. Marcus Aurelius (121 AD -180 AD) - Rome, Italy