PARMENIDES The Inspired
	"Being is."

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	HERACLEITUS The Riddler
	"All things come into being by conflict of opposites."

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	SOCRATES The Examiner
	"Virtue is knowledge."

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	PLATO The Idealist
	"When philosophers are kings..."

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	ARISTOTLE The Realist
	"Every realm of nature is marvellous."

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	ZENO The Stoic
	"It does not matter what you bear, but how you bear it."

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	EPICURUS The Master Of Pleasure
	"Pleasure is our first and kindred good."

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	DIOGENES The Cynic
	"No, not life itself, but living wrongly is evil."

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	AUGUSTINE The Converted Converter
	"Understanding through faith."

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	MONTAIGNE The Sceptic
	"Que sçais-je? What do I know?"

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	DESCARTES The Rationalist
	(Cogito ergo sum) "I think, therefore I am."

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	SPINOZA The Pantheist
	"Whatever is, is in God."

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	LOCKE Practical Man Of The World
	"The mind is but white paper upon which experience writes."

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	ROUSSEAU Historian Of The Heart
	"Man is born free and is everywhere in chains."

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	KANT The Critic
	"Mind is the law-giver to nature."

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	HEGEL The Absolute Idealist
	"The history of the world is nothing but the development of the idea of freedom."

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	COMTE The High Priest Of Social Science
	"The positive system will attain its ultimate perfection if men could represent all particular facts as instances of one general law."

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	MARX The Prophet Of Revolution
	"The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles."

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	NIETZSCHE The Nihilist
	"God is dead."

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	FREUD The Psychologist
	"Thus in its relation to the id, the ego is like a man on horseback who has to hold in check the superior strength of the horse."

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	HUSSERL The Phenomenologist
	"The science of nature presupposes the science of mind."

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	WITTGENSTEIN The Logician
	"We are engaged in a struggle with language."

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	SARTRE The Existentialist
	"Man is condemned forever to be free."

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	LEVI-STRAUSS The Structural Anthropologist
	"What will happen when our own civilization has transformed all other living civilizations into its own image?"

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