Philosophy

Charles Taylor was born in Canada in 1931.   named the first winner of the Berggruen Prize in 2016. "The $1 million award from the Berggruen Institute will be given annually to a thinker whose ideas are of broad significance for shaping human self-understanding and the advancement of humanity." He is best known for his contributions to political philosophy, the philosophy of social science, history of philosophy and intellectual history.

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Jürgen Habermas(born 18 June 1929) is a German sociologist and philosopher in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism. He is perhaps best known for his theories on communicative rationality and the public sphere. 
Associated with the Frankfurt School, Habermas's work focuses on the foundations of social theory and epistemology, the analysis of advanced capitalistic societies and democracy, the rule of law in a critical social-evolutionary context, and contemporary politics, particularly German politics. 

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Marx's theories about society, economics, and politics—collectively understood as Marxism—hold that human societies develop through class struggle; in capitalism, this manifests itself in the conflict between the ruling classes (known as the bourgeoisie) that control the means of production and working classes (known as the proletariat) that enable these means by selling their labour power in return for wages.

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel  (August 27, 1770 – November 14, 1831) was a German philosopher and an important figure of German idealism.

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David Hume  (26 April 1711  – 25 August 1776) was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, who is best known today for his highly influential system of philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism.

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John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 8 May 1873) was an English philosopher, political economist and civil servant. One of the most influential thinkers in the history of liberalism, he contributed widely to social theory, political theory and political economy.

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Aristotle's (384–322 BC) views on physical science profoundly shaped medieval scholarship. Their influence extended from Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages into the Renaissance, and were not replaced systematically until the Enlightenment and theories such as classical mechanics.

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