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Founded by credits the philosopher who actually established a school of thought. Wikipedia notes "Stoicism was founded in the ancient Agora of Athens by Zeno of Citium around 300 BCE," a single founding figure even though the school grew far beyond him. This dimension connects a school back to the person who first taught it.

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Founded By

Immanuel Kant

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Adi Shankara

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Akshapada Gautama

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Albert Camus

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Al-Farabi

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Alfred North Whitehead

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Aristotle

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Badarayana

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Bertrand Russell

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Charles Sanders Peirce

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Confucius

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Diogenes of Sinope

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Edmund Husserl

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Enrique Dussel

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Epicurus

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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Gottlob Frege

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Han Fei

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Henry Odera Oruka

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Jean-Francois Lyotard

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Jean-Paul Sartre

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Jeremy Bentham

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John Dewey

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John Locke

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Kanada

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Kapila

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Karl Marx

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Laozi

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Max Horkheimer

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Mikhail Bakunin

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Moritz Schlick

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Mozi

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Nagarjuna

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Nishida Kitaro

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Patanjali

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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

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Plato

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Plotinus

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Protagoras

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Pyrrho of Elis

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Pythagoras

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Rene Descartes

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Shang Yang

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Shihab al-Din Suhrawardi

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Simone de Beauvoir

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Thomas Aquinas

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Thomas Hobbes

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Vasubandhu

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William James

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Zeno of Citium

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Zhu Xi

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Zhuangzi

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1. Ethics (Wikipedia)
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  • Ethics, lead section, Greek contributors sentence
    This period saw the emergence of ethical teachings associated with Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism, and contributions of philosophers like Socrates and Aristotle.
  • Ethics, lead section, ancient regions sentence
    The history of ethics started in the ancient period with the development of ethical principles and theories in ancient Egypt, India, China, and Greece.
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