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Pythagoras

c. 570 BCE – c. 495 BCE

Pythagoras of Samos founded one of the most influential intellectual and religious movements in the ancient world. He established a community in Croton (southern Italy) devoted to mathematical and philosophical inquiry intertwined …

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Plato

c. 428 BCE – c. 348 BCE

Plato of Athens is, together with his teacher Socrates and his student Aristotle, one of the three foundational figures of Western philosophy. He founded the Academy — the first institution of higher …

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Aristotle

384 BCE – 322 BCE

Aristotle of Stagira is, alongside Plato, one of the two most influential philosophers in the Western tradition. He studied at Plato's Academy for twenty years, then founded his own school, the Lyceum. …

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Thomas Aquinas

c. 1225 – 1274

Thomas Aquinas is the most important philosopher-theologian of the medieval period and one of the most influential thinkers in Western history. A Dominican friar who synthesized Aristotelian philosophy with Christian theology, he …

Read next De Ente et Essentia (On Being and Essence) 1256 Quaestiones Disputatae de Veritate (Disputed Questions on Truth) 1259

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Meister Eckhart

1260 – 1328

Meister Eckhart was a German Dominican theologian, philosopher, and mystic whose radical sermons on detachment, the birth of the Word in the soul, and the 'ground' (*Grund*) of God and the soul …

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Martin Heidegger

1889 – 1976

Martin Heidegger was a German philosopher whose investigation of the 'question of Being' (Seinsfrage) made him one of the most important and controversial thinkers of the 20th century. His magnum opus Being …

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