José Enrique Rodó

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Born	July 15, 1872 • Montevideo • Uruguay
Died	May 1, 1917 (aged 44) • Palermo • Italy
Notable Works	“Ariel”

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Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Zinovyev

Russian writer and scholar

Francis Bacon

British author, philosopher, and statesman

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Swiss-born French philosopher

Blaise Pascal

French philosopher and scientist

Gotthold Lessing, detail of an oil painting by Georg May, 1768; in the Gleimhaus, Halberstadt, Ger.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

German author

Denis Diderot

French philosopher

Pablo Neruda

Chilean poet

Hippolyte Taine

French critic and historian

Seneca

Roman philosopher and statesman [4 BCE – 65 CE]

Jorge Luis Borges

Argentine author

H.L.A. Hart

English philosopher, teacher, and author

Aldous Huxley

British author

Simone de Beauvoir

French writer

Simone Weil

French philosopher

József, Baron Eötvös

Hungarian writer

Eric Hoffer

American writer

Walter Benjamin

German literary critic

Allan Bloom

American philosopher and author

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James Beattie

Scottish poet

José Vasconcelos

Mexican educator

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