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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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1. Metaphysics (Wikipedia)

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Metaphysics, lead section, Greek emergence sentence
In ancient Greece, metaphysics emerged in the 6th century BCE with the pre-Socratic philosophers, who gave rational explanations of the cosmos as a whole.
Metaphysics, lead section, Indian origin sentence
In ancient India, starting in the 7th century BCE, the Upanishads were written as religious and philosophical texts that examine how ultimate reality constitutes the ground of all being.
Metaphysics, lead section, Chinese origin sentence
At about the same time in ancient China, the school of Taoism was formed and explored the natural order of the universe.

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Founded By

Adi Shankara

Al-Farabi

Alfred North Whitehead

Aristotle

Badarayana

Edmund Husserl

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Immanuel Kant

Kanada

Kapila

Laozi

Nagarjuna

Nishida Kitaro

Patanjali

Plato

Plotinus

Pythagoras

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Shihab al-Din Suhrawardi

Thomas Aquinas

Vasubandhu

Zhuangzi