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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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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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Sources
1. Metaphysics (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia
  • 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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