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The document provides brief biographies on several influential philosophers: John Locke, who founded liberalism based on principles of humanism and individual freedom; Epicurus, who taught that one should not fear god or death and that happiness comes from simple pleasures; Zeno of Citium, who founded Stoicism based on principles of enduring what is terrible and obtaining what is good; Avicenna, an influential philosopher and physician in the Persian Empire; Thomas Aquinas, who argued that the universe must have a first cause or unmoved mover; and Confucius, who espoused principles of ethics and politics and believed government should rule through morality and rites rather than coercion.

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The document provides brief biographies on several influential philosophers: John Locke, who founded liberalism based on principles of humanism and individual freedom; Epicurus, who taught that one should not fear god or death and that happiness comes from simple pleasures; Zeno of Citium, who founded Stoicism based on principles of enduring what is terrible and obtaining what is good; Avicenna, an influential philosopher and physician in the Persian Empire; Thomas Aquinas, who argued that the universe must have a first cause or unmoved mover; and Confucius, who espoused principles of ethics and politics and believed government should rule through morality and rites rather than coercion.

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John Locke

Liberalism, because of his development freedom, founded primarily by #1.

Locke is referred to as the Father of of the principles of humanism and individual

Epicurus

Epicurus has gotten a bit of an unfair

reputation over the centuries as a teacher of self-indulgence and excess delight. He was soundly criticized by a lot of Christian polemicists (those who make war against all thought but Christian thought), especially during the Middle Ages, because he was thought to be an atheist, whose principles for a happy life were passed down to this famous set of statements: Dont fear god; dont worry about death; what is good is easy to get; what is terrible is easy to endure.

ZENO OF CITIUM-You may not be as familiar with him as with most of the others on this list, but Zeno
founded the school of Stoicism. Stoicism comes from the Greek stoa, which is a roofed colonnade, especially that of the Poikile, which was a cloistered piazza on the north side of the Athenian marketplace, in the 3rd Century BC

AVICENA-His full name is Ab

Al al- usayn ibn

Abd All h ibn S n , the last two words of which were

Latinized into the more common form in Western history. He lived in the Persian Empire from c. 980 AD to 1037. The Dark Ages were not so dark. Aside from his stature as a philosopher, he was also the worlds preeminent physician during his life. His two most well known works today are The Book of Healing (which has nothing to do with physical medicine) and The Canon of Medicine, which was his compilation of all known medical knowledge at that time.

THOMAS AQUINAS-Thomas will forever be remembered as the guy who supposedly proved the existence of
God by arguing that the Universe had to have been created by something, since everything in existence has a beginning and an end. This is now referred to as the First Cause argument, and all philosophers after Thomas have wrestled with proving or disproving the theory. He actually based it on the notion of The Greek means one who moves while not moving or the unmoved mover. , of #1.

CONFUCIUS-Master Kong Qiu, as his name translates from Chinese, lived from 551 to 479 BC, and remains the most important
single philosopher in Eastern history. He espoused significant principles of ethics and politics, in a time when the Greeks were espousing the same things. We think of democracy as a Greek invention, a Western idea, but Confucius wrote in his Analects that the best government is one that rules through rites and the peoples natural morality, rather than by using bribery and coercion. This may sound obvious to us today, but he wrote it in the early 500s to late 400s BC. It is the same principle of democracy that the Greeks argued for and developed: the peoples morality is in charge; therefore, rule by the people.

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