Social Philosophers
A list of philosophers that have concerned themselves, although most of them not exclusively, with social philosophy:
- Socrates
- Plato
- Chanakya
- Confucius
- Thiruvalluvar
- Thomas Hobbes
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- John Locke
- Jeremy Bentham
- John Stuart Mill
- Georg Wilhelm Hegel
- Herbert Spencer
- Henry George
- Karl Marx
- Friedrich Engels
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
- Mikhail Bakunin
- Peter Kropotkin
- Marshall McLuhan
- Émile Durkheim
- Max Weber
- Sigmund Freud
- Carl Jung
- John Zerzan
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Theodor Adorno
- Karl Raimund Popper
- Georg Lukács
- Antonie Pannekoek
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Michel Foucault
- Erving Goffman
- Noam Chomsky
- Cornelius Castoriadis
- Guy Debord
- Ivan Illich
- Terry Eagleton
- Sheila Rowbotham
- Bertrand Russell
- Tristan Tzara
- Susan Sontag
- Herbert Marcuse
- Erich Fromm
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