
Socrates (470-399 B.C.) The father of philosophy |

Plato (427-347 B.C.) "Student of Socrates" |

Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) "Student of Plato" |

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) "The State of Nature" |

Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650) "Cogito Ergo Sum" "I think, therefore I am" |

John Locke (1632-1704) "Tabula Rasa" "Blank Slate" |

George Berkeley (1685-1753) "To Be is to Be Perceived"
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Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) "Humanity is good by nature and has been fully corrupted by civilization." |

Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) "The Categorical Imperative"
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John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) "Utilitarianism" |

W.E.B. Du Bois (1868 -1963) (William Edward Burghardt) "Children learn more from what
you are than what you teach." |