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Adam Smith (1723-1790)
economist, philosopher, French moralist, publisher
- University of Glasgow, University of Oxford
George Soros (born 1930)
business magnate, investor, philanthropist, philosopher, economist, financier, banker, trader, entrepreneur
- London School of Economics and Political Science
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
poet, philosopher, professor
- University of Oxford, Eton College
Octavio Paz (1914-1998)
poet, lyricist, diplomat, philosopher, translator, essayist, politician
- University of California, Berkeley, Colegio Williams
René Descartes (1596-1650)
philosopher, mathematician, musicologist, physicist, astronomer, music theorist, correspondent, mechanical automaton engineer, military personnel
- collège Henri-IV de La Flèche, Leiden University
Michel Onfray (born 1959)
philosopher, essayist, pundit
- University of Caen Normandy
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
translator, philosopher, historian, essayist, governess, businessperson, feminist
Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat de Condorcet (1743-1794)
philosopher, mathematician, economist, politician, political scientist, biographer, sociologist
- University of Paris