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Also Known As Abū ʿAlī Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb ibn Miskawayh
Born c.930
Died 1030 • Rayy • Iran
Subjects Of Study universal history
Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī
Persian scholar
David Hume
David Hume
Scottish philosopher
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Rashīd al-Dīn
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as-Suhrawardī
Persian mystic
ʿAbd al-Qādir Badāʾūnī
Indo-Persian historian
Aristotle
Aristotle
Greek philosopher
Socrates
Socrates
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Plato
Plato
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Justus of Ghent: Saint Augustine
St. Augustine
Christian bishop and theologian
Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Benedict de Spinoza
Benedict de Spinoza
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Adam Smith
Adam Smith
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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Bernard Williams
Bernard Williams
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