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Flourished	c.201 - c.300

Marble bust of Aristotle with a beard and draped robe, showing detailed facial features and wavy hair, set against a dark background.

Aristotle

Greek philosopher

Illustration shows a sketch of the ancient Greek writer Lucian, published in Encyclopaedia Londinensis, or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature.

Lucian

Greek writer

Ramus, Petrus

Petrus Ramus

French philosopher

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Dio Chrysostom

Greek philosopher

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Gorgias of Leontini

Greek Sophist

David Hume

David Hume

Scottish philosopher

Santayana

George Santayana

Spanish-American philosopher

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Nicholas Of Autrecourt

French philosopher and theologian

Bayle, Pierre

Pierre Bayle

French philosopher

Maimon, engraving by Wilhelm Arndt

Salomon Maimon

Jewish philosopher

La Mothe Le Vayer, engraving by Jacques Lubin

François de La Mothe Le Vayer

French writer and philosopher

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Carneades

Greek philosopher

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Agrippa

Greek philosopher

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Fritz Mauthner

German theater critic and philosopher

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim

Renaissance scholar

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Pyrrhon Of Elis

Greek philosopher

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Sextus Empiricus

Greek philosopher

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Arcesilaus

Greek philosopher

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Cleitomachus

Greek philosopher

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Menodotus Of Nicomedia

philosopher of medicine

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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