Lys van filosowe

'n Filosoof (ook wel 'wysgeer') beoefen die studie van filosofie

Bekende filosowe

Filosowe uit die Oudheid 

 Aenesidemus
 Agrippa
 Al-Kindi 
 Anaxagoras
 Anaximander (610 v.C. – 546 v.C.)
 Anaximenes
 Apollonios van Tyana
 Aristoteles (384 v.C. – 322 v.C.)
 Augustinus
 Bias van Priëne
 Marcus Tullius Cicero
 Confucius
 Demokritos (c. 460 v.C – c. 370 v.C)
 Empedokles (c. 490 v.C – c. 435 v.C)
 Epictetus
 Gorgias
 Herakleitos  (c.576 v.C – c. 480 v.C)
 Meton van Athene
 Mengzi
 Nagarjuna
 Panaitios
 Parmenides
 Plato (427 v.C. – 347 v.C.)
 Poseidonios
 Protagoras
 Pyrrho van Elis
 Pythagoras
 Lucius Annaeus Seneca
 Lucretius
 Sokrates (470 v.C. – 399 v.C.)
 Solon (c. 640 v.C – c. 558 v.C)
 Strabo
 Thales van Milete (c. 640 v.C – c. 562 v.C)
 Theophrastos
 Xenophanes
 Zeno van Citium
 Zenon van Elea

Filosowe uit die Middeleeue 
 Al-Ghazali
 Petrus Abaelardus
 Anselmus van Kantelberg
 Thomas van Aquino
 Averroes (Ibn Rushd)
 Avicenna (Ibn Siena)
 Bonaventura
 Ibn Khaldun
 Siger van Brabant
 Meester Eckhart
 Petrus Lombardus
 Albertus Magnus
 Willem van Ockham
 Johannes Duns Scotus

Filosowe uit Renaissance tot die 19e eeu 

 Francis Bacon
 George Berkeley
 Jeremy Bentham
 George Berkeley
 Jean Bodin
 Giordano Bruno
 Edmund Burke
 Joseph Butler
 Tommaso Campanella
 Ernst Cassirer
 Auguste Comte
 René Descartes
 Denis Diderot
 Émile Durkheim
 Friedrich Engels 
 Desiderius Erasmus
 Ludwig Feuerbach
 Johann Gottlieb Fichte
 Gottlob Frege
 Georg Hegel (1770–1831)
 Thomas Hobbes
 David Hume
 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 Immanuel Kant
 Kang Youwei
 Søren Kierkegaard
 Gottfried Leibniz
 John Locke
 Ernst Mach
 Niccolò Machiavelli
 Karl Marx
 Moses Mendelssohn
 Marin Mersenne
 John Stuart Mill
 Charles Montesquieu
 Thomas More
 Nezahualcoyotl
 Friedrich Nietzsche
 Blaise Pascal
 Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
 George Santayana
 Friedrich Schelling
 Arthur Schopenhauer
 Herbert Spencer
 Oswald Spengler
 Baruch Spinoza
 Andrzej Towiański
 Voltaire
 Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947)

Hedendaagse filosowe 

 Theodor Adorno
 Giorgio Agamben
 Louis Althusser
 Hannah Arendt
 Leo Apostel
 Alfred Jules Ayer
 Gaston Bachelard
 Georges Bataille
 Jean Baudrillard
 Zygmunt Bauman
 Simone de Beauvoir
 Daniel Bell
 David Benatar           
 Walter Benjamin
 Frithjof Bergmann
 Henri Bergson
 Maurice Blanchot
 Ned Block
 Nick Bostrom 
 Pierre Bourdieu 
 Wendy Brown
 Martin Buber
 Judith Butler‎
 Albert Camus
 John D. Caputo 
 Rudolf Carnap
 Emil Cioran
 Benedetto Croce
 Guy Debord
 Gilles Deleuze
 Daniel Dennett
 Jacques Derrida
 John Dewey
 Wilhelm Dilthey
 Hubert Dreyfus
 Rudolf Christoph Eucken
 Frantz Fanon
 Herbert Feigl
 Paul Feyerabend
 Mark Fisher
 Luciano Floridi
 Jerry Fodor
 Michel Foucault
 Erich Fromm
 Hans-Georg Gadamer
 Eugenio Garin
 Antonio Gramsci 
 Romano Guardini
 Félix Guattari
 Jürgen Habermas
 Donna Haraway
 Martin Heidegger
 Carl Hempel
 Edmund Husserl
 Ivan Illich
 Roman Ingarden
 Luce Irigaray
 Fredric Jameson
 Karl Jaspers
 Walter Kaufmann
 Alexandre Kojève
 Leszek Kołakowski
 Alexandre Koyré
 Julia Kristeva 
 Thomas Kuhn
 Harry Kuitert
 Imre Lakatos
 François Laruelle 
 Henri Lefebvre
 Claude Lévi-Strauss 
 Emmanuel Levinas
 Jean-François Lyotard
 Niklas Luhmann
 Gabriel Marcel
 Humberto Maturana
 Colin McGinn
 Marshall McLuhan
 Quentin Meillassoux
 Maurice Merleau-Ponty 
 George Edward Moore
 Emmanuel Mounier
 Iris Murdoch
 John Norman
 Robert Nozick
 Toby Ord
 Willem Ouweneel
 Talcott Parsons
 Kees van Peursen
 Herman Philipse
 Jean Piaget
 Johannes Jacobus Poortman
 Karl Popper
 Hilary Putnam
 Willard Van Orman Quine
 Tariq Ramadan 
 Ayn Rand
 John Rawls
 Paul Ricœur
 Richard Rorty
 Bertrand Russell
 Gilbert Ryle
 Jean-Paul Sartre
 Max Scheler
 Carl Schmitt
 Roger Scruton
 Gilbert Simondon
 Peter Singer
 John Searle
 Peter Sloterdijk
 Hans Sluga
 Bernard Stiegler
 Max Stirner
 Leo Strauss 
 Charles Margrave Taylor
 Alain Touraine
 Ludwig Wittgenstein
 Peter Zapffe
 Slavoj Zizek

Afrikaanse filosowe 

 Gerrit Brand
 Chris Brink
 Paul Cilliers
 Johan Degenaar
 P.S. Dreyer
 André du Toit
 Pieter Duvenage
 Willie Esterhuyse
 Danie Goosen
 Johan Hattingh
 Murray Hofmeyr
 Hennie Lötter
 Eugène Marais
 Albert Meyer
 Johann Mouton
 C.K. Oberholzer
 Bert Olivier
 Daantjie Oosthuizen
 Dan Roodt
 Vasti Roodt
 Deon Rossouw
 Hennie Rossouw
 Johann Rossouw
 Emma Ruttkamp
 Marinus Schoeman
 Adam Small
 Jan Christian Smuts
 Johan Snyman
 Hendrik Gerhardus Stoker
 Danie Strauss
 Willie van der Merwe
 Anton van Niekerk
 Marlene van Niekerk
 Marthinus Versfeld
 N.P. van Wyk Louw

 
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