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Born November 20, 1855 • California
Died September 14, 1916 (aged 60) • Cambridge • Massachusetts
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Alfred North Whitehead
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William James
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Saul Kripke
Saul Kripke
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T.H. Green
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Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Samuel Hirsch
American religious philosopher and rabbi
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Aristotle
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Plato
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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
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René Descartes
René Descartes
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Benedict de Spinoza
Benedict de Spinoza
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David Hume
David Hume
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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
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Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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