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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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