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Also Known As Axel Anders Theodor Hägerström
Born September 6, 1868 • Sweden
Died July 7, 1939 (aged 70)
Emanuel Swedenborg
Emanuel Swedenborg
Swedish philosopher
August Strindberg
August Strindberg
Swedish dramatist
Charles Bray
British manufacturer
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Zinovyev
Russian writer and scholar
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
Karl Marx
Karl Marx
German philosopher
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Swiss-born French philosopher
Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky
American linguist
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
German philosopher
René Descartes
René Descartes
French mathematician and philosopher
Voltaire
Voltaire
French philosopher and author
Benedict de Spinoza
Benedict de Spinoza
Dutch-Jewish philosopher
Adam Smith
Adam Smith
Scottish philosopher

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