Philosopher
A philosopher is a person devoted to studying and producing results in philosophy. The word, "philosopher," literally means "lover of wisdom."
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Popular Western philosophers in (approximate) historical order
Not listed above: (some of) The Presocratics — Epicurus place after Aristotle --Hellenistic Philosophers — Cicero — Avicenna — Sir Thomas Browne — Francis Bacon — Thomas Reid — Dugald Stewart — James Mill — Rudolf Steiner — Albert Schweitzer — G. E. Moore — Albert Camus — Georg Henrik von Wright — Mortimer Adler — Nelson Goodman — Imre Lakatos — Paul Feyerabend — Mario Bunge — Douglas Hofstadter — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Eastern philosophers in approximate historical order:
Gautama Buddha — Confucius — Mo Zi — Lao Zi — Rhazes — Mencius — Zhuang Zi — Xun Zi --Han Feizi — Nagarjuna — Bodhidharma — Shankara — Dogen — Zhu Xi — Feng Youlan — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan — Mao Zedong
Philosophers: listed by philosophical school
Nicknames of Medieval Philosophers
Several medieval philosophers have been given Latin nicknames — some by their contemporaries, others by historians. For example:
- Francis Mayron – Doctor acutus, the acute doctor, or Doctor illuminatus
- St. Thomas Aquinas – Doctor Angelicus, the angelic doctor, or Doctor Communis
- William of Ockham – Doctor Invincibilis
- Alexander of Hales – Doctor Irrefragibilis
- Roger Bacon – Doctor Mirabilis, the wonderful doctor
- John Bassol – Doctor Ordinatissimus, the most methodical doctor
- St. Bonaventure – Doctor Seraphicus
- Henry Goethals (Hendricus Bonicollius) – Doctor Solemnis, the solemn doctor
- Richard Middleton – the solid doctor, or the profound doctor
- Duns Scotus – Doctor Subtilis, the discriminating doctor, or Doctor Marianus
- Albertus Magnus – Doctor Universalis
- Durandus de Sancto Portiano – the most resolute doctor
- Thomas Bradwardine – the profound doctor
- Jean Ruysbroeck (Joannes Ruysbrokius) – the divine doctor or ecstatic doctor
See Also the articles at: Philosophy, Eastern philosophy, Epistemology, Ethics, Metaphysics, Aesthetics, Deconstruction, Ontology, Logic, Reason, Mathematicians, Feminism, Scientists, List of philosophers, and a fuller listing at Category:Philosophers.
The Philosopher is also the nickname of Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 22.
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