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Indian

  • Adi Shankaracharya
  • Adi Romanujacharya
  • Adi Madhuacharya


Chinese

  • Lao Tzu
  • Confucius
  • Mencius


European

Dutch

  • Baruch Spinoza


French

  • René Descartes


Swiss

English

  • 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

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