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Confucius
Stone rubbing (19th century?) of Confucius from a design attributed to Wu Daoxuan...
© Everett Historical/Shutterstock.com
Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero, detail of a marble bust; in the Capitoline Museums, Rome.
© AISA—Everett/Shutterstock.com
Christian bishop and theologian St. Augustine
St. Augustine of Hippo, undated engraving.
Lanmas/Alamy
Niccolò Machiavelli
Niccolò Machiavelli, oil on canvas by Santi di Tito; in the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence.
© brandstaetter images—Hulton Fine Art Collection/Getty Images
Thomas Hobbes
English philosopher Thomas Hobbes, oil painting by John Michael Wright, c. 1669–70;...
Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Locke
The philosopher John Locke, oil on canvas by Herman Verelst, 1689; in the National...
Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group/REX/Shutterstock.com
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, undated aquatint.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Elisha Whittelsey Collection, the Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1975 (accession no. 1975.616.11); www.metmuseum.org
James Tassie: Adam Smith
Adam Smith, paste medallion by James Tassie, 1787; in the Scottish National...
Courtesy of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
Jean Bodin
A 16th-century engraving of the French political philosopher Jean Bodin.
Courtesy of the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
Auguste Comte
Auguste Comte, drawing by Tony Toullion, 19th century; in the Bibliothèque Nationale,...
H. Roger-Viollet
Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville, detail of an oil painting by Théodore Chassériau, 1850; in...
H. Roger-Viollet
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