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| Seamus Heaney 1939- |
Pierre Hadot 1922- |
J.R.R. Tolkien 1892-1973 |
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| Friedrich Hegel
1770-1831 |
Immanuel Kant
1724-1804 |
Jean-J. Rousseau
1712-1778 |
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| David
Hume
1711-1776 |
John Locke
1632-1704 |
Thomas Hobbes
1588-1679 |
Nicolo Machiavelli
1469-1527 |
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| Rene Descartes
1596-1650 |
Francis Bacon
1561-1626 |
Wm. Shakespeare
1564-1616 |
Dante Aligheri
1265-1321 |
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| Thomas Aquinas
1225-1274 AD |
Moses Maimonides
1135-1204 AD |
Boethius
480-525 AD |
Augustine
354-430 AD |
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| Virgil
70-19 BC |
Aristophanes
448-380 BC |
Sophocles
495-406 BC |
Aeschylus
525 to 456 |
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| Aristotle
384-322 BC |
Plato
428-347 BC |
Presocratics
500's BC |
Hesiod
700's? BC |
Homer
700's? BC |