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Akshapada Gotama
Philosophy & Thought
3
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Akshapada Gotama

เค…เค•เฅเคทเคชเคพเคฆ เค—เฅŒเคคเคฎ
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India
c. 200 BCE โ€“ c. 150 BCE (~50 years old)

Ancient Indian sage and logician who authored the 'Nyaya Sutras', establishing the foundational system of Indian formal logic, epistemology, and the four valid means of knowledge (Pramanas).

Godna (Bihar), India
Kanada
Philosophy & Thought
3
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Kanada

เค•เคฃเคพเคฆ
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India
c. 600 BCE โ€“ c. 530 BCE (~70 years old)

Ancient Indian sage and natural philosopher who founded the Vaisheshika philosophical school and formulated the earliest known atomic theory of matter, defining the indestructible atom (Parmanu) and laws of motion.

Prabhas Patan (Gujarat), India
Kapila
Philosophy & Thought
3
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Kapila

เค•เคชเคฟเคฒ
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India
c. 600 BCE โ€“ c. 550 BCE (~50 years old)

Ancient Indian philosopher and Vedic sage revered as the founder of Samkhya, India's oldest classical dualistic philosophical system, analyzing the cosmic relationship between pure consciousness (Purusha) and primordial matter (Prakriti).

Sagar Island (West Bengal), India
Patanjali
Philosophy & Thought
3
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Patanjali

เคชเคคเคžเฅเคœเคฒเคฟ
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India
c. 200 BCE โ€“ c. 150 BCE (~50 years old)

Ancient Indian sage and philosopher who compiled the foundational 'Yoga Sutras', codifying classical Raja Yoga into the Eight Limbs (Ashtanga) to achieve mastery of the mind and spiritual liberation.

Chidambaram (Tamil Nadu), India
Huineng
Philosophy & Thought
3
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Huineng

ๆƒ ่ƒฝ
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Tang Dynasty
638-02-27 โ€“ 713-08-28 (~75 years old)

Illiterate firewood seller who became the historic Sixth Patriarch of Chan (Zen) Buddhism, founder of the Southern School of Sudden Enlightenment, whose teachings are preserved in the sacred 'Platform Sutra'.

Shaoguan (Guangdong), China
Dong Zhongshu
Philosophy & Thought
3
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Dong Zhongshu

่‘ฃไปฒ่ˆ’
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Han Dynasty
c. 179 BCE โ€“ c. 104 BCE (~75 years old)

Han dynasty philosopher and imperial chancellor who persuaded Emperor Wu of Han to make Confucianism the sole official state ideology of the Chinese empire, formulating the doctrine of 'Mutual Resonance between Heaven and Man'.

Xi'an (Shaanxi), China
Philo of Alexandria
Philosophy & Thought
3
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Philo of Alexandria

ููŠู„ูˆ ุงู„ุฅุณูƒู†ุฏุฑูŠ (ููŠู„ูˆู†)
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฌ Roman Egypt
c. 20 BCE โ€“ 50-01-01 (~20 years old)

Hellenistic Jewish philosopher of Alexandria who pioneered the allegorical interpretation of the Hebrew Scriptures, synthesized the Torah with Platonic and Stoic philosophy, and developed the theology of the divine 'Logos'.

Alexandria, Egypt
Martianus Capella
Philosophy & Thought
5
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Martianus Capella

ู…ุงุฑุชูŠุงู†ูˆุณ ูƒุงุจูŠู„ุง
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Numidia
c. 360 โ€“ c. 428 (~68 years old)

Late antique Latin writer and lawyer from Numidia whose allegorical encyclopedia 'The Marriage of Philology and Mercury' defined the medieval curriculum of the Seven Liberal Arts (Trivium and Quadrivium).

Carthage, Tunisia
Arnobius of Sicca
Philosophy & Thought
4
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Arnobius of Sicca

ุฃุฑู†ูˆุจูŠูˆุณ ุงู„ุณูŠูƒูŠ
๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ณ Numidia / Proconsularis
c. 255 โ€“ c. 330 (~75 years old)

Numidian master rhetorician from Le Kef, Tunisia, who fiercely attacked Roman pagan mythology and defended the Christian faith in his seven-volume treatise 'Adversus Nationes'.

Le Kef, Tunisia
Lactantius
Philosophy & Thought
3
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Lactantius

ู„ุงูƒุทุงู†ุณูŠูˆุณ
๐ŸŒ Numidia
c. 250 โ€“ c. 325 (~75 years old)

North African Berber Christian author known as the 'Christian Cicero', who served as Latin rhetorician to Emperor Diocletian, converted to Christianity, and tutored the eldest son of Constantine the Great.

Trier, Germany
Minucius Felix
Philosophy & Thought
5
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Minucius Felix

ู…ุงุฑูƒูˆุณ ู…ูŠู†ูˆุณูŠูˆุณ ููŠู„ูŠูƒุณ
๐ŸŒ Numidia
c. 160 โ€“ c. 250 (~90 years old)

North African Roman lawyer from Cirta (Constantine) who authored 'Octavius', one of the earliest and most elegant Christian philosophical dialogues in Latin literature.

Rome, Italy
Apuleius of Madauros
Philosophy & Thought
4
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Apuleius of Madauros

ุฃุจูˆู„ูŠูˆุณ ุงู„ู…ุงุฏูˆุฑูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Numidia
c. 124 โ€“ c. 170 (~46 years old)

Numidian Berber Latin author and Platonist philosopher from M'Daourouch, Algeria, who wrote 'The Golden Ass' (Metamorphoses), the only complete Latin novel to survive from antiquity, containing the myth of Cupid and Psyche.

Tunis, Tunisia
Ibn Tufayl (Abubacer)
Philosophy & Thought
15
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 560

Ibn Tufayl (Abubacer)

ุฃุจูˆ ุจูƒุฑ ู…ุญู…ุฏ ุจู† ุนุจุฏ ุงู„ู…ู„ูƒ ุจู† ุทููŠู„ ุงู„ู‚ูŠุณูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ Spain
c. 1105 CE โ€“ 1185 CE (~80 years old)

Andalusian philosopher and royal physician whose pioneering allegorical novel Hayy ibn Yaqzan (Alive, Son of Awake) explored human reason discovering supreme truth in total isolation.

Marrakech, Morocco
Bhartrihari
Philosophy & Thought
11
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 490

Bhartrihari

เคญเคฐเฅเคคเฅƒเคนเคฐเคฟ
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India
c. 450 CE โ€“ c. 510 CE (~60 years old)

Sanskrit philosopher of language whose Vakyapadiya established the metaphysics of Shabda Brahman (the Word as divine ground of reality) and the semantic flash of intuition (Sphota).

Ujjain, India
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