Plato founded the Academy in Athens, one of the first institutions of higher learning. He is also the author of many great philosophical works.

April 22, 1724 - February 12, 1804

one ought to think autonomousley

2. Born: March 31, 1596

Death: February 11, 1650

3. Best know for "Cogito ergo sum" means "I think, therefore I am" If a belief had the slightest doubt to it then he would say it's false, he called it "hyperbolic doubt"

Born: April 26,1889

Death: April 29, 1951

Australian British philosopher that dealt with mainly logic. Philosophy of mathemamtics, the philosophy of language and the philosophy of mind

2. Born November 8, 1848

Died July 26, 1925
3. One of the founders of modern logic using quantifiers and variables. He was a philosopher of mathematics.

Born: August 27, 1770

Death: November 14, 1831

German philosopher in the late enlightenment. His principals achieved absolute idealism-  It is Hegel's account of how being is ultimately comprehensible as an all-inclusive whole,there must be sense of identity for a being to know its object.

Born: November 24, 1632

Died: February 21, 1677

Rationalism is the name ascribed to a movement of thought that originated in the 17th century, that is associated with the names of René Descartes, Leibniz, and Spinoza

April 5, 1588 - December 4, 1679

he is best known for his political philosophy. how human beings can live together in peace and avoid the danger and fear of civil conflict

2.Born: May 5, 1818

Death: March 14, 1883

3. Marxism - That humans fall into classes and they struggle through it. Basically created communism. Societies raise and fall.