Immanuel Kant22 April 1724, German
Philosopher
Voltaire21 November 1694, French
Writer
Adam Smith16 June 1723, Scottish
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau28 June 1712, Swiss, French
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David Hume26 April 1711, Scottish
Philosopher & Historian
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel27 August 1770, German
Philosopher, Philosophy Historian
Arthur Schopenhauer22 February 1788, German
Philosopher
Mary Wollstonecraft27 April 1759, British
Writer
Edmund Burke12 January 1729, Irish, British
Statesman
Jeremy Bentham15 February 1748, British
Philosopher
Montesquieu18 January 1689, French
Philosopher
Thomas Carlyle04 December 1795, Scottish
Philosopher
Denis Diderot05 October 1713, French
Philosopher
Friedrich Schiller10 November 1759, German
Poet, Playwright, Historian & Philosopher
George Berkeley12 March 1685, Irish, British
philosopher
Adam Weishaupt06 February 1748, German
Philosopher
William Godwin03 March 1756, British
Journalist
Joseph Priestley24 March 1733, British
Discoverer of Oxygen
Ethan Allen21 January 1738, American
Revolutionary War Hero
Novalis02 May 1772, German
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Marquis de Condorcet17 September 1743, French
Mathematician, Philosopher
Maria Gaetana Agnesi16 May 1718, Italian
Mathematician, Philosopher, Theologian
Jonathan Edwards05 October 1703, American
American preacher
Samuel Coleridge21 October 1772, British
Poet
Gottfried W. Leibniz01 July 1646, German
Philosopher, Mathematician
Jean Le Rond d’Alembert16 November 1717, French
Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher And Musical
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz01 July 1646, German
Philosopher
Carl von Clausewitz01 June 1780, German
Military person
Shah Waliullah Dehlawi21 February 1703, Indian
Muslim Scholar
Charles Fourier07 April 1772, French
Economist, Sociologist, Philosopher
Johann Gottlieb Fichte19 May 1762, German
Philosopher, University teacher
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Émilie du Châtelet17 December 1706, French
Philosopher
Johann Gottfried Herder25 August 1744, German, Polish
Philosopher
Joseph de Maistre01 April 1753, French
Philosopher
Wilhelm von Humboldt22 June 1767, German
Linguist, Diplomat, Anthropologist, Teacher,
James Mill06 April 1773, American, Scottish
Historian
Germaine de Staël22 April 1766, French
Philosopher
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling27 January 1775, German
Philosopher, University teacher
Giambattista Vico23 June 1668, Italian
Philosopher
Friedrich Schleiermacher21 November 1768, German, Polish
Philosopher, Theologian, Translator, University
Giacomo Leopardi29 June 1798, Italian
Writer, Poet, Philosopher, Philologist
Moses Mendelssohn06 September 1729, German
Philosopher, Translator, Writer, Bible translator
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing22 January 1729, German
Writer, Philosopher, Playwright, Poet, Librarian,
François Quesnay04 June 1694, French
Philosopher, Economist, Physician,
Benjamin Constant25 October 1767, Swiss, French
Philosopher, Politician, Writer, Diarist
William Paley14 July 1743, British
Philosopher, Theologian, University teacher
Bernard Bolzano05 October 1781, Czech
Mathematician
William Whewell24 May 1794, British
Economist, Physicist, Historian, Philosopher,
Roger Joseph Boscovich18 May 1711, Croatian, Italian
Physicist
Nicolas Malebranche06 August 1638, French
Philosopher, Writer, Theologian
Thomas Reid07 May 1710, Scottish
Philosopher
Richard Price23 February 1723, British, Welsh
Philosopher
Johann Georg Hamann27 August 1730, German
Philosopher
David Brewster11 December 1781, British, Scottish
Botanist, Civil engineer, Physicist, Engineer,
Dimitrie Cantemir26 October 1673, Romanian
Soldier
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke16 September 1678, British
Politician
Friedrich Schlegel10 March 1772, German
Poet
Andrés Bello29 November 1781, Chilean, Venezuelan
Poet, Legislator, Philosopher, Educator,
Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten17 July 1714, German
philosopher, professor
Bernard Mandeville15 November 1670, Dutch
Philosopher
August Wilhelm Schlegel08 September 1767, German
Linguist, Translator, Sanskrit scholar,
Hakuin Ekaku19 January 1686, Japanese
Buddhist priest
Frances Wright06 September 1795, British
Writer, Philosopher
Pierre Louis Maupertuis28 September 1698, French
Mathematician
Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi25 January 1743, German
Philosopher
Claude Adrien Helvétius26 January 1715, French
Philosopher, Writer, French moralists
Johann Friedrich Herbart04 April 1776, German
philosopher, psychologist, educationist,
N. F. S. Grundtvig08 September 1783, Danish
Author
Adam Ferguson20 June 1723, British
Philosopher, Librarian, Historian, Soldier,
Julien Offray de La MettrieFrench
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac30 September 1715, French
philosopher, economist, writer, psychologist
Antoine Destutt de Tracy20 July 1754, French
Philosopher
Ludvig Holberg03 December 1684, Danish, Norwegian
Writer
Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais09 June 1782, French
philosopher
Louis de Bonald02 October 1754, French
Philosopher
Étienne Cabet01 January 1788, French
Philosopher
Joseph Butler18 May 1692, British
Philosopher
Dugald Stewart22 November 1753, British, Scottish
Philosopher
Antonio Soler03 December 1729, Spanish
Composer, Organist, Musicologist, Music theorist,
Antonio Rosmini25 March 1797, Italian
Philosopher
Georg Ernst Stahl22 October 1659, German
Chemist
Victor Cousin28 November 1792, French
Philosopher
James Burnett, Lord Monboddo25 October 1714, Scottish
Judge
Judith Sargent Murray
Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney03 February 1757, French
Philosopher
Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet08 March 1788, Scottish
Metaphysician
Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos05 January 1744, Spanish
Statesman
Francesco Algarotti11 December 1712, Italian
Polymath
Philip Mazzei25 December 1730, Italian
Physician
Motoori Norinaga21 June 1730, Japanese
Scholar
Joseph Joubert07 May 1754, French
Philosopher, Essayist, Writer
Karl Christian Friedrich Krause06 May 1781, German
Philosopher, University teacher
Pyotr Chaadayev07 June 1794, Russian
Russian author
Sylvain Maréchal15 August 1750, French
Essayist