John Stuart Mill (J.S. Mill)
Political philosopher, political economist, political theorist, educator, politician, MP of United Kingdom, financier of the University of London
George Berkeley
Bishop of Cloyne, philosopher, pioneer in the theory of immaterialism
1685-1753 (68)
George Grote
Historian, writer, editor of A History of Greece, co-founder of the University of London, pioneer in mental health movement
Herbert Spencer
Philosopher, psychologist, anthropologist, biologist, pioneer in social theory (or social Darwinism theory), coined the term "survival of the fittest"
1820-1903 (83)
David Hume
Enlightenment philosopher, historian, monetary theorist, economist, librarian, essayist, philosophical empiricism, author of A Treatise on Human Nature
plato.stanford.edu
Jeremy Bentham
Jurist, judge, writer, pioneer in utilitarianism, philosopher, inventor of the panopticon building of social control for a surveillance system of control, became an ironic or iconic corpse and had himself taxidermied
1748-1832 (84)
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Immanuel Kant
Philosopher during the Age of Enlightenment, epistemology, pioneer in metaphysics, ethics, natural laws
1724-1804 (80)
plato.stanford.edu
Alexis de Tocqueville
Aristocrat aka Alexis de Tocqueville, diplomat, political scientist, political philosopher, historian, Democracy in America, The Old Regime and the Revolution
1805-1859 (54)