#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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