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Flourished c.1001 - c.1100
Subjects Of Study Platonism • dialectic
Bessarion
Byzantine theologian
Maurice Blondel
French philosopher
Michael Psellus
Byzantine philosopher, theologian, and statesman
Aristotle
Aristotle
Greek philosopher
Plato
Plato
Greek philosopher
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
German philosopher
Statue of Averroës (Ibn Rushd)
Averroës
Muslim philosopher
Philo Judaeus
Philo Judaeus
Jewish philosopher
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, woodcut, 1537.
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
Roman scholar, philosopher, and statesman
Jakob Böhme
Jakob Böhme
German mystic
St. Gregory of Nyssa
Saint Gregory of Nyssa
Byzantine philosopher and theologian
Marsilio Ficino
Marsilio Ficino
Italian philosopher and theologian
Lucius Apuleius
Roman philosopher and scholar
Bernard de Chartres
French philosopher
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, count di Concordia
Italian scholar
David Friedrich Strauss
German philosopher
Speusippus
Greek philosopher
John Norris, bronze sculpture by Sir Henry Cheers, 1756
John Norris
British priest and philosopher
Inge, William Ralph
William Ralph Inge
British theologian
Kumarila
Indian dialectician, teacher, and interpreter

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Agathon (centre) greeting guests in Plato's Symposium, oil on canvas by Anselm Feuerbach, 1869; in the Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany.
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