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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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Lusitania sinking, illustration from The War of the Nations (New York), December 31, 1919. World War I, WWI. This image is one of three on the page. (See source file for the other two.)
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Born April 13, 1899 • Vienna • Austria
Died May 20, 1959 (aged 60) • New York City • New York
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Karl Jaspers
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Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer
British philosopher
Auguste Comte
Auguste Comte
French philosopher
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Max Scheler, 1912.
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German philosopher
Edith Stein
Edith Stein
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Jean Baudrillard
French author and philosopher
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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Edward Westermarck
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Georg Simmel
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Paul Barth
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Otto Neurath
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Noam Chomsky
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