Philosophy

Indian

Adi Shankaracharya

Adi Romanujacharya

Adi Madhuacharya

Confucius

Mencius

Lao Tzu

Baruch Spinoza

René Descartes
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- believed that people are naturally good, therefore nature is basically good; culture is what corrupted people

Thomas Hobbes
- Conservative philosopher, relatively to Rousseau when it came to anthropology
- believed that in the state of nature, every person is at another person's throat; only thing that prevented this murderous intent was the imposition of a collective agreement (aka social contract) that would govern how people would interact