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Born January 26, 1715 • Paris • France
Died December 26, 1771 (aged 56) • France
Subjects Of Study education
Felix Adler
Felix Adler
American educator
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Swiss-born French philosopher
Voltaire
Voltaire
French philosopher and author
Dimitry Levitzky: portrait of Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot
French philosopher
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert.
Jean Le Rond d’Alembert
French mathematician and philosopher
Bosio, Jean-Baptiste-François: Portrait of Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
French philosopher and humanist
Emmanuel Lévinas
French philosopher
Condillac, engraving by Pierre-Nicolas Ransonnette
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
French philosopher
Nicole, detail of an engraving by Cornelius Vermeulen after a painting by Elisabeth Cheron
Pierre Nicole
French theologian
Aristotle
Aristotle
Greek philosopher
Socrates
Socrates
Greek philosopher
Plato
Plato
Greek philosopher
Confucius
Confucius
Chinese philosopher
Justus of Ghent: Saint Augustine
St. Augustine
Christian bishop and theologian
Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
German philosopher
Benedict de Spinoza
Benedict de Spinoza
Dutch-Jewish philosopher
Adam Smith
Adam Smith
Scottish philosopher
David Hume
David Hume
Scottish philosopher
John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
British philosopher and economist

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