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Painting of scholastic philosopher St. Thomas of Aquinas by Joseph Aubert, 1900.
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St. Augustine of Hippo, painting by Lippo Memmi, early 14th century; in the Pushkin...
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Boethius, detail of a miniature from a Boethius manuscript, 12th century; in the...
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St. Anselm of Canterbury (center), terra-cotta altarpiece by Luca della Robbia;...
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St. Bonaventure, detail of a fresco by Benozzo Gozzoli; in the church of San Francesco,...
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St. Albertus Magnus, detail of a fresco by Tommaso da Modena, c. 1352; in the Church...
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The Triumph of St. Thomas Aquinas, fresco by Andrea da Firenze, depicting...
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Niccolò Machiavelli, oil painting by Santi di Tito; in the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence.
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A self-portrait by Leonardo da Vinci shows how he looked in 1512. The chalk drawing...
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Galileo.
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Francis Bacon, oil painting by an unknown artist; in the National Portrait Gallery,...
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Thomas Hobbes, detail of an oil painting by John Michael Wright; in the National...
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Philosopher and mathematician René Descartes.
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Dutch philosopher Benedict de Spinoza, oil painting, 17th century; in the Herzogliche...
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Isaac Newton, portrait by Godfrey Kneller, 1689.
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The philosopher John Locke, oil on canvas by Herman Verelst, 1689; in the National...
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George Berkeley, detail of an oil painting by John Smibert, c. 1732; in the National...
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David Hume, oil painting by Allan Ramsay, 1766; in the Scottish National Portrait...
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau, drawing in pastels by Maurice-Quentin de La Tour, 1753; in...
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German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, engraving by Lazarus Gottlieb Sichling...
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Auguste Comte, drawing by Tony Toullion, 19th century; in the Bibliothèque Nationale,...
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English philosopher, politician, and social reformer John Stuart Mill, visiting card...
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Revolutionary, sociologist, historian, and economist Karl Marx.
From "Karl Marx's Oekonomische Lehren", by Karl Kautsky, 1887
Søren Kierkegaard, drawing by Christian Kierkegaard, c. 1840; in a private collection.
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German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, 1855.
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British philosopher G.E. Moore, a cofounder of analytic philosophy, pencil drawing...
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German philosopher of phenomenology Edmund Husserl, c. 1930.
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German philosopher of hermeneutics and existentialism Martin Heidegger.
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