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Agathosthenes
Agathosthenes (Ἀγαθοσθένης) was a Greek historian or philosopher of uncertain date, who is referred to by Tzetzes as his authority in matters connected with geography. There is mention of a work of Agathosthenes called "Asiatica Carmina", where some writers read the name "Aglaosthenes"; for Aglaosthenes or Aglosthenes, who is by some considered to be the same as Agathosthenes, wrote a work on the history of Naxos, of which nothing remains, but which was much used by ancient writers.
Baba Hari Dass
Baba Hari Dass (Devanagari: ) (26 March 1923 – 25 September 2018) was an Indian yogi, silent monk and commentator of Indian scriptural traditions of dharma and moksha. He was classically trained in the Ashtanga of Patanjali (also known as Rāja yoga), as well as Kriya yoga, Ayurveda, Samkhya, Sri Vidya, Tantra, Vedanta, and Sanskrit.
Allīnūs
Allīnūs or Alīnūs (Arabic: , romanized: ʾllynws) was an Alexandrian philosopher and commentator on Aristotle from the sixth or seventh century AD. He wrote in Greek, but is known only from Arabic sources, including some translated excerpts of his works.
Hastamalakacharya
Hastamalakacharya (IAST Hastāmalakācārya) (c. 8th century CE) was a disciple of Adi Shankara, the Advaita philosopher. He was made the first Jagadguru (head) of the Dvāraka Pīṭhaṃ, the monastery founded by Adi Shankara in Dwaraka. Hastamalaka founded a matha by name Idayil Matham in Thrissur, Kerala.
Lucius Mestrius Florus
Lucius Mestrius Florus was a Roman senator in the first century AD and is mentioned several times by the philosopher and writer Plutarch in his work, Moralia.
Robert Grosseteste: The Growth of an English Mind in Medieval Europe
Robert Grosseteste: The Growth of an English Mind in Medieval Europe is a nonfiction book written by R.W. Southern. It was originally published in 1986 by Clarendon Press.
Thomas Vaughan (philosopher)
Thomas Vaughan (1621 − 27 February 1666) was a Welsh clergyman, philosopher, and alchemist, who wrote in English. He is now remembered for his work in the field of natural magic. He also published under the pseudonym Eugenius Philalethes.
Acharya Rameshwar Jha
Acharya Rameshwar Jha (20th century) was an Indian traditional Sanskrit scholar and considered an authority on Nyaya, Vyakarana and Vedanta. He later became an exponent of non dualistic shaivisim and is often credited with establishing and propagating Kashmir Shaivism in Varanasi.
The Buddha
Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as the Buddha (lit. ' the awakened one '), was a wandering religious teacher who lived in the eastern Indo-Gangetic Plains during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded Buddhism. According to Buddhist legends, he was born in Lumbini, in what is now Nepal, to royal parents of the Shakya clan, but renounced his home life to live as a wandering ascetic. After leading a life of mendicancy, asceticism, and meditation, he attained nirvana at Bodh Gaya in what is now Bihar, India. The Buddha then wandered through the lower Indo-Gangetic Plain, teaching and building a monastic order (sangha). Buddhist tradition holds he died in Kushinagar (in modern day Uttar Pradesh, India) and reached parinirvana ("final release from conditioned existence").
Manuel Ancízar
Manuel Esteban Ancízar Basterra (25 December 1812 – 21 May 1882) was a Colombian lawyer, writer, and journalist. He founded a publishing house and a newspaper before joining the Chorographic Commission in 1850. He also served as the 4th Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Granadine Confederation, and as the first president of the National University of Colombia.
Kurnig
Kurnig (fl. 1894–1918) is the pseudonym of a writer and activist who published several works in German and French on topics including anti-militarism, sexology, philosophy, and education in the late 19th and early 20th century.
Muhammad Abduh
Muhammad Abduh (1849 – 11 July 1905) was an Egyptian Islamic scholar and judge who served as Grand Mufti of Egypt. He was a central figure of the Arab Nahḍa and Islamic Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Ivan Seliminski
Ivan Seliminski (1799 – 1866) was a prominent Bulgarian philosopher, scholar, teacher and medical doctor.
Christopher J. Arthur
Christopher John Arthur (since 1990 aka. Chris Arthur, Christopher Arthur or C. J. Arthur) (born February 7, 1940) is a philosopher and author of Marxist Dialectic.
Yves-Emmanuel Dogbé
Yves-Emmanuel Dogbé (10 May 1939 – 7 November 2004) was a Togolese writer, philosopher, sociologist, and educator.
Masanobu Fukuoka
Masanobu Fukuoka (Japanese: , Hepburn: Fukuoka Masanobu; 2 February 1913 – 16 August 2008) was a Japanese farmer and philosopher celebrated for his natural farming and re-vegetation of desertified lands. He was a proponent of no-till, herbicide and pesticide -free cultivation methods from which he created a particular method of agriculture, commonly referred to as "natural farming" or "do-nothing farming".
Mariano Iberico Rodríguez
Mariano Iberico Rodríguez (* Cajamarca, 1892 - died Lima, 1974) was a Peruvian philosopher.
Gerhard of Sterngassen
Gerhard of Sterngassen was a German Thomist philosopher. He was the brother of John of Sterngassen.
Schahan Berberian
Schahan R. Berberian (Armenian: Շահան Ռ. Պէրպէրեան; 1 January 1891 – 9 October 1956) was an Armenian philosopher, composer, and psychologist.
Akhtar Imam
Akhtar Imam (Bengali: আখতার ইমাম; 30 December 1917 – 22 June 2009) was a Bangladeshi educationist, feminist and social activist.