#philosopher  a specialist in philosophy
  supertype:  intellectual__intellect  a person who uses the mind creatively
  instance:  Pierre_Abelard  Aristotle  Francis_Bacon  Jeremy_Bentham  Henri_Louis_Bergson  Bishop_Berkeley  Anicius_Manlius_Severinus_Boethius  Giordano_Bruno  Martin_Buber  Ernst_Cassirer  Cleanthes  Isidore_Auguste_Marie_Francois_Comte  Confucius  Democritus  Jacques_Derrida  Rene_Descartes  John_Dewey  Denis_Diderot  Diogenes  Empedocles  Epicurus  Ernst_Heinrich_Haeckel  David_Hartley  Georg_Wilhelm_Friedrich_Hegel  Martin_Heidegger  Heraclitus  Johann_Friedrich_Herbart  Johann_Gottfried_von_Herder  Thomas_Hobbes  David_Hume  Edmund_Husserl  Hypatia  William_James  Immanuel_Kant  Soren_Aabye_Kierkegaard  Lao-tzu  Gottfried_Wilhelm_Leibniz  John_Locke  Titus_Lucretius_Carus  Raymond_Lully  Ernst_Mach  Niccolo_Machiavelli  Moses_Maimonides  Nicolas_de_Malebranche  Herbert_Marcuse  Karl_Marx  George_Herbert_Mead  John_Stuart_Mill  James_Mill  Baron_de_la_Brede_et_de_Montesquieu  George_Edward_Moore  Friedrich_Wilhelm_Nietzsche  William_of_Occam  Jose_Ortega_y_Gasset  Blaise_Pascal  Charles_Franklin_Peirce  Ralph_Barton_Perry  Plato  Pythagoras  Thomas_Reid  Jean-Jacques_Rousseau  Bertrand_Arthur_William_Russell  Arthur_Schopenhauer  Albert_Schweitzer  Lucius_Annaeus_Seneca  Socrates  Herbert_Spencer  Oswald_Spengler  Benedict_de_Spinoza  Dugald_Stewart  Pierre_Teilhard_de_Chardin  Thales_of_Miletus  Theophrastus  Simone_Weil  Alfred_North_Whitehead  Ludwig_Josef_Johan_Wittgenstein  Xenophanes  Zeno_of_Citium  Zeno_of_Elea
  subtype:  nativist  a philosopher who subscribes to nativism
  subtype:  eclectic__eclecticist  someone who selects according to the eclectic method
  subtype:  empiricist  a philosopher who subscribes to empiricism
  subtype:  epistemologist  a specialist in epistemology
  subtype:  esthetician__aesthetician  a philosopher who specializes in the nature of beauty
  subtype:  ethicist__ethician  a philosopher who specializes in ethics
  subtype:  existentialist  a philosopher who emphasizes freedom of choice and personal responsibility but who regards human existence in a hostile universe as unexplainable
     instance:  Simone_de_Beauvoir__Beauvoir  Jean_Paul_Sartre__Sartre
  subtype:  gymnosophist  member of a Hindu sect practicing gymnosophy (especially nudism)
  subtype:  libertarian  someone who believes the doctrine of free will
  subtype:  mechanist  a philosopher who subscribes to the doctrine of mechanism
  subtype:  moralist  a philosopher who specializes in morals and moral problems
     subtype:  egalitarian__equalitarian  a person who believes in the equality of all people
     subtype:  elitist  someone who believes in rule by an elite group
        subtype:  mandarin.elitist  a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group
     subtype:  utilitarian  someone who believes that the value of a thing depends on its utility
  subtype:  necessitarian  someone who does not believe the doctrine of free will
     subtype:  Calvinist  an adherent of the theological doctrines of John Calvin
        subtype:  Huguenot  a French Calvinist of the 16th or 17th centuries
     subtype:  fatalist__determinist__predestinationist  anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny
  subtype:  pluralist.philosopher  a philosopher who believes that no single explanation can account for all the phenomena of nature
  subtype:  realist  a philosopher who believes that universals are real and exist independently of anyone thinking of them
     subtype:  pragmatist  a person who takes a practical approach to problems
  subtype:  Stoic  a member of the ancient Greek school of philosophy founded by Zeno; "a Stoic achieves happiness by submission to destiny"
  subtype:  transcendentalist  advocate of Transcendentalism
  subtype:  yogi  one who practices yoga and has achieved a high level of spiritual insight

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