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G. E. Moore

George Edward Moore

Great Britain

1873 – 1958 (84 years old)

British philosopher who co-founded analytic philosophy with Bertrand Russell, famous for Principia Ethica, the concept of the naturalistic fallacy, and his common sense defense of the external world.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

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Salama Moussa

سلامة موسى

Egypt

1887 – 1958 (71 years old)

Trailblazing secular thinker, socialist pioneer, and essayist from Zagazig who introduced modern evolutionary theory, comparative sociology, and women's civil rights to early 20th-century Arab intellectual discourse.

Cairo, Egypt

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John Dewey

John Dewey

United States

1859 – 1952 (92 years old)

American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer who developed instrumentalism and progressive education, co-founded the NAACP and the ACLU, and authored Democracy and Education.

Burlington (Vermont), United States

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein

Austria

26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951 (62 years old)

Austrian-British philosopher who revolutionized philosophy twice: with the logical atomism of the Tractatus and the ordinary language 'language games' of Philosophical Investigations.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

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Mustafa Abd al-Raziq

مصطفى عبد الرازق

Egypt

1885 – 1947 (62 years old)

Enlightened philosopher and Grand Imam of Al-Azhar who studied at the Sorbonne and Lyons, introduced the modern academic study of Islamic philosophy, and authored Tamhid li-Tarikh al-Falsafa al-Islamiyya.

Cairo, Egypt

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Simone Weil

Simone Adolphine Weil

France

1909 – 1943 (34 years old)

French philosopher, mystic, and social activist celebrated for Waiting for God and Gravity and Grace, who renounced elite privilege to work in automobile factories and Spanish Civil War trenches.

Ashford (Kent), United Kingdom

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Edith Stein

Edith Stein (Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross)

Poland

1891 – 1942 (50 years old)

German-Jewish philosopher and phenomenologist who was Edmund Husserl's assistant, authored On the Problem of Empathy, converted to Catholicism, and was murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Oswiecim, Poland

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Henri Bergson

Henri-Louis Bergson

France

1859 – 1941 (81 years old)

French philosopher of intuition and process who won the 1927 Nobel Prize in Literature, world-famous for Time and Free Will, Creative Evolution, and his concept of living duration (la duree).

Mormant (Seine-et-Marne), France

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Walter Benjamin

Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin

Germany

1892 – 1940 (48 years old)

German-Jewish philosopher, literary essayist, and cultural critic celebrated for The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction and Theses on the Philosophy of History.

Portbou (Catalonia), Spain

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Edmund Husserl

Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl

Austria

1859 – 1938 (79 years old)

Austrian-German philosopher who founded phenomenology with Logical Investigations and Ideas I, seeking to return 'to the things themselves' by analyzing intentional consciousness and epoche.

Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

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Rashid Rida

محمد رشيد رضا

Lebanon

September 23, 1865 – August 22, 1935 (69 years old)

Influential Islamic scholar, editor, and political theorist who founded the seminal Cairo-based journal 'Al-Manar' in 1898, continuing the modernist reform tradition of Muhammad Abduh while articulating an early vision of the modern Islamic state.

Cairo, Egypt

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Gottlob Frege

Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege

Germany

1848 – 1925 (76 years old)

German mathematician, logician, and philosopher universally celebrated as the father of modern logic and analytic philosophy, who invented predicate calculus and distinguished Sense and Reference.

Wismar, Germany

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Salem Bouhageb

سالم بوحاجب

Tunisia

1827 – 1924 (97 years old)

Towering reformist thinker and revered professor at Ez-Zitouna who mentored the leaders of the Young Tunisian movement and advocated religious modernization through ijtihad.

Tunis, Tunisia

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Charles Sanders Peirce

Charles Sanders Peirce

United States

1839 – 1914 (74 years old)

American philosopher, logician, and scientist celebrated as the father of pragmatism and modern semiotics, who introduced abduction (inference to the best explanation).

Milford (Pennsylvania), United States

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Edward Wilmot Blyden

Edward Wilmot Blyden

United States

1832 – 1912 (79 years old)

Educator, writer, and diplomat recognized as the father of Pan-Africanism, whose 1887 book Christianity, Islam and the Negro Race formulated the concept of the 'African Personality'.

Freetown, Sierra Leone

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William James

William James

United States

1842 – 1910 (68 years old)

American philosopher and psychologist who founded American psychology with The Principles of Psychology and popularized Pragmatism, radical empiricism, and The Varieties of Religious Experience.

Cambridge (Massachusetts), United States

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Qasim Amin

قاسم أمين

Egypt

1863 – 1908 (44 years old)

Eminent judge and social philosopher celebrated as the father of modern Arab feminism, whose revolutionary 1899 book The Liberation of Women ignited the struggle for female education and civil rights.

Cairo, Egypt

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Muhammad Abduh

محمد عبده

Egypt

1849 – July 11, 1905 (56 years old)

Colossal Egyptian Islamic jurist, Grand Mufti of Egypt, and religious reformer whose intellectual work liberated Islamic thought from stagnant medieval imitation (taqlid), advocating rational interpretation (ijtihad) and modern scientific education.

Cairo, Egypt

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