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Also Known As Maurice Édouard Blondel
Born November 2, 1861 • Dijon • France
Died June 4, 1949 (aged 87) • Aix-en-Provence • France
Subjects Of Study dialectic
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
German philosopher
Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
Danish philosopher
Martin Buber
Martin Buber
German religious philosopher
Troeltsch, Ernst
Ernst Troeltsch
German theologian
Statue of Averroës (Ibn Rushd)
Averroës
Muslim philosopher
William James
William James
American psychologist and philosopher
Michael Psellus
Byzantine philosopher, theologian, and statesman
John Norris, bronze sculpture by Sir Henry Cheers, 1756
John Norris
British priest and philosopher
John Italus
Byzantine philosopher
Alfred Firmin Loisy
French theologian
Bayle, Pierre
Pierre Bayle
French philosopher
Pierre-Simon Ballanche.
Pierre-Simon Ballanche
French philosopher
Bernard de Chartres
French philosopher
Henry of Ghent
French philosopher
Aristotle
Aristotle
Greek philosopher
John Locke
John Locke
English philosopher
David Hume
David Hume
Scottish philosopher
St. Thomas Aquinas
St. Thomas Aquinas
Italian Christian theologian and philosopher
Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
British mathematician and philosopher
Rudolf Otto
Rudolf Otto
German philosopher and theologian

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