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Also Known As Vishnugupta • Kautilya
Flourished 300 BCE -
Notable Works “Artha-shastra”
Chandragupta
Chandragupta
emperor of India
Dong Zhongshu
Chinese scholar
Chandra Gupta I
king of India
Hugh Le Despenser
English noble, the younger [died 1326]
Charles Bray
British manufacturer
Charles Colson
American political and religious figure
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Zinovyev
Russian writer and scholar
Ashraf Ghani
president of Afghanistan
Jody Powell
American presidential adviser
Arthur F. Burns
American economist
Yaḥyā ibn Khalid
ʿAbbāsid vizier
John M. Poindexter
United States government official
Aristotle
Aristotle
Greek philosopher
Socrates
Socrates
Greek philosopher
Plato
Plato
Greek philosopher
Confucius
Confucius
Chinese philosopher
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
British author, philosopher, and statesman
John Locke
John Locke
English philosopher
Justus of Ghent: Saint Augustine
St. Augustine
Christian bishop and theologian
Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher

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