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The list Founders of philosophical traditions includes Aristotle, Thiruvalluvar, Averroes, Socrates and Bertrand Russell. The list consists of 59 members and 4 sublists.
  • 1.

    Aristotle
    Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath (384–322 BC)
    Aristotle
    Overview: Aristotle (Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs, 384–322 BCE) was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. He was the founder of the Lyceum and the Peripatetic school of ...
    Nationality: Greek
    Occupation: Philosopher
    Gender: Male
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    4th-century BC mathematicians 10T
    Students of Plato 2T
    Ancient Greek economists 3T
  • 2.

    Thiruvalluvar
    Tamil poet and philosopher
    Thiruvalluvar
    Overview: Thiruvalluvar (Tamil: திருவள்ளுவர்), commonly known as Valluvar, was a celebrated Tamil poet and philosopher. He is best known as the author of the Tirukkuṟaḷ, a collection of couplets on ethics, political ...
    Nationality: Indian
    Occupation: Philosopher
    Gender: Male
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    Dalit Hindu saints 6T
    Indian ethicists 3T
    Tamil Hindu saints 21T
  • 3.

    Buddha
    Siddhartha Gautama, founder of Buddhism
    Buddha
    Overview: Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as the Buddha (lit. 'the awakened one'), was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in South Asia during the 6th or 5th century BCE and ...
    Date of birth: 8 April 563
    Date of death: 483
    Age: -81
    Nationality: Indian
    Occupation: Religion
    Gender: Male
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    Avatars of Vishnu 5T
    6th-century BC Indian philosophers 3T
    Philosophers of ethics and morality 223T
  • 4.

    Averroes
    Arab-Andalusian Muslim writer and philosopher (1126–1198)
    Averroes
    Overview: Ibn Rushd (Arabic: ابن رشد‎; full name in Arabic: أبو الوليد محمد ابن احمد ابن رشد‎, Abū l-Walīd Muḥammad Ibn ʾAḥmad Ibn Rušd; 14 April 1126 – 11 December 1198), often Latinized as A ...
    Date of birth: 1126
    Date of death: 10 December 1198
    Age: 72 (age at death)
    Nationality: Spanish
    Occupation: Philosopher
    Gender: Male
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    Almohad scholars 4T
    12th-century Muslim theologians 9T
    Astronomers from al-Andalus 21T
  • 5.

    Socrates
    Classical Greek Athenian philosopher (c. 470 – 399 BC)
    Socrates
    Overview: Socrates (Ancient Greek: Σωκρᾰ́της, Sōkrátēs, c.– 399 BCE) was a classical Greek (Athenian) philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, and as being the first moral philosopher ...
    Nationality: Greek
    Occupation: Philosopher
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)
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    Philosophers of literature 95T
    Philosophers of logic 129T
    Academic skepticism 9T
  • 6.

    Bertrand Russell
    British philosopher and logician (1872–1970)
    Bertrand Russell
    Overview: Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell OM FRS (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British polymath, philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist ...
    Date of birth: 18 May 1872
    Date of death: 2 February 1970
    Age: 97 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Scientist
    Gender: Male
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    Residents of Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park 9T
    19th-century English non-fiction writers 173T
    20th-century English non-fiction writers 123T
  • 7.

    René Descartes
    French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
    René Descartes
    Overview: René Descartes ( or ; Renatus Cartesius; 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650) was a French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy ...
    Date of birth: 31 March 1596
    Date of death: 11 February 1650
    Age: 53 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Philosopher
    Gender: Male
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    Augustinian philosophers 13T
    Cartesianism 8T
    17th-century French scientists 5T
  • 8.

    Plato
    Ancient Greek philosopher (428/423 – 348/347 BC)
    Plato
    Overview: Plato ( PLAY-toe; Greek: Πλάτων Plátōn, in Classical Attic; 428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC) was an Athenian philosopher during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, founder of the Platonist school of ...
    Nationality: Greek
    Occupation: Philosopher
    Gender: Male
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    Intellectualism 7T
    Philosophers of literature 115T
    Philosophers of logic 148T
  • 9.

    Thomas Hobbes
    English philosopher (1588–1679)
    Thomas Hobbes
    Overview: Thomas Hobbes ( HOBZ; 5/15 April 1588 – 4/14 December 1679) was an English philosopher. Hobbes is best known for his 1651 book Leviathan, in which he expounds an influential formulation of social contract ...
    Date of birth: 5 April 1588
    Date of death: 4 December 1679
    Age: 91 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Philosopher
    Gender: Male
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    17th-century male writers 1,224T
    Philosophers of ethics and morality 223T
    English social commentators 57T
  • 10.

    Immanuel Kant
    German philosopher
    Immanuel Kant
    Overview: Immanuel Kant (, ; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers. Kant's comprehensive and systematic works in epistemology, metaphysics, ethics ...
    Date of birth: 22 April 1724
    Date of death: 12 February 1804
    Age: 79 (age at death)
    Nationality: German
    Occupation: Philosopher
    Gender: Male
     0    0
    Philosophers of literature 95T
    Philosophers of logic 129T
    History of ethics 19T
  • 11.

    Claude Lévi-Strauss
    French anthropologist and ethnologist (1908–2009)
    Claude Lévi-Strauss
    Overview: Claude Lévi-Strauss (28 November 1908 – 30 October 2009) was a French anthropologist and ethnologist, born in Belgium to French-Jewish parents living in Bruxelles, whose work was key in the development ...
    Date of birth: 27 November 1908
    Date of death: 30 October 2009
    Age: 100 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Philosopher
    Gender: Male
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    20th-century French memoirists 10T
    20th-century French Jews 256T
    Philosophers of linguistics 27T
  • 12.

    Jacques Derrida
    Algerian philosopher
    Jacques Derrida
    Overview: Jacques Derrida (born Jackie Élie Derrida; July 15, 1930 – October 9, 2004) was an Algerian-born French philosopher best known for developing a form of semiotic analysis known as deconstruction, which ...
    Date of birth: 15 July 1930
    Date of death: 8 October 2004
    Age: 74 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Philosopher
    Gender: Male
     0    0
    Philosophers of literature 95T
    Philosophers of ethics and morality 223T
    French social democrats 2T
  • 13.

    Pythagoras
    Greek philosopher (c. 570 – c. 495 BC)
    Pythagoras
    Overview: Pythagoras of Samos (c. – c.) was an ancient Ionian Greek philosopher and the eponymous founder of Pythagoreanism. His political and religious teachings were well known in Magna Graecia and influenced ...
    Nationality: Greek
    Occupation: Mathematician
    Gender: Male
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    6th-century BC mathematicians 3T
    5th-century BC mathematicians 6T
    Ancient Greek metaphilosophers 7T
  • 14.

    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Major Austrian philosopher
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Overview: Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein ( VIT-gən-s(h)tyne; 26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951) was an Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind ...
    Date of birth: 26 April 1889
    Date of death: 29 April 1951
    Age: 62 (age at death)
    Nationality: Austrian
    Occupation: Philosopher
    Gender: Male
     0    0
    Bisexual academics 37T
    20th-century Austrian philosophers 41T
    British male non-fiction writers 73T
  • 15.

    Avicenna
    Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
    Avicenna
    Overview: Ibn Sina (Persian: ابن سینا‎), also known as Abu Ali Sina (ابوعلی سینا), Pur Sina (پورسینا), and often known in the West as Avicenna (c. – June 1037), was a Persian polymath who is regarded as one ...
    Date of death: 1037
    Nationality: Iranian
    Occupation: Scientist
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    Iranian ethicists 5T
    Pharmacologists of medieval Iran 11T
    Iranian music theorists 4T
  • 16.

    Paul Tillich
    German-American theologian and philosopher
    Paul Tillich
    Overview: Paul Johannes Tillich (August 20, 1886 – October 22, 1965) was a German-American Christian existentialist philosopher and Lutheran Protestant theologian who is widely regarded as one of the most influential ...
    Date of birth: 20 August 1886
    Date of death: 22 October 1965
    Age: 79 (age at death)
    Nationality: German
    Occupation: Philosopher
    Gender: Male
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    Emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States 56T
    German male essayists 86T
    German male non-fiction writers 2,538T
  • 17.

    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632–1677)
    Baruch Spinoza
    Overview: Baruch (de) Spinoza (born Bento de Espinosa; later as an author and a correspondent Benedictus de Spinoza, anglicized to Benedict de Spinoza; 24 November 1632 – 21 February 1677) was a Dutch philosopher ...
    Date of birth: 24 November 1632
    Date of death: 24 November 1632
    Age: 0 (age at death)
    Nationality: Dutch
    Occupation: Philosopher
    Gender: Male
     0    0
    17th-century Jewish biblical scholars 2T
    Dutch Sephardi Jews 87T
    Political theologians 35T
  • 18.

    Augustine of Hippo
    Christian theologian and philosopher (354–430)
    Augustine of Hippo
    Overview: Saint Augustine of Hippo (13 November 354 – 28 August 430 AD) was a Roman African, early Christian theologian, doctor of the Church, and Neoplatonic philosopher from Numidia whose writings influenced the ...
    Date of birth: 13 November 354
    Date of death: 28 August 430
    Age: 75 (age at death)
    Nationality: Italian
    Occupation: Philosopher
    Gender: Male
     0    0
    Former Manichaeans 1T
    Philosophers of war 30T
    Augustinian philosophers 13T
  • 19.

    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Overview: Søren Aabye Kierkegaard ( SORR-ən KEER-kə-gard, -⁠gor; 5 May 1813 – 11 November 1855) was a Danish philosopher, theologian, poet, social critic and religious author who is widely considered to ...
    Date of birth: 5 May 1813
    Date of death: 11 November 1855
    Age: 42 (age at death)
    Nationality: Danish
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
    Partner: Regina Schlegel (Engaged)
     0    0
    19th-century Danish philosophers 1T
    Tuberculosis deaths in Denmark 5T
    Danish ethicists 2T
  • 20.

    Al-Farabi
    Iranian Islamic philosopher and music theorist (c. 870 – 950/951)
    Al-Farabi
    Overview: Abu Nasr Al-Farabi (Persian: ابو نصر محمد بن محمد فارابی‎ Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al Fārābī; known in the West as Alpharabius; c. 872 – between 14 December, 950 and 12 January, 951) was a ...
    Date of birth: 872
    Age: 1152
    Nationality: Iranian
    Occupation: Philosopher
     0    0
    10th-century Muslim theologians 2T
    Iranian theologians 1T
    Sayf al-Dawla 4T
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