Philosophers of the ancient and early modern world whose views on knowledge, virtue and the formation of the person shaped later education, from Confucius and the Neoplatonist teachers of Alexandria to the English philosophers of the Enlightenment. A person belongs here when the cited article calls the person a philosopher of the ancient world or of the Enlightenment. It excludes modern reformers and critical pedagogy theorists, who sit in their own groups.
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Hypatia (Wikipedia)
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Hypatia (born c. 350-370, March 415 AD) was a Neoplatonist philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician who lived in Alexandria, at that time in the province of Egypt and a major city of the Roman Empire.
Wikipedia: Confucius
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Confucius (c. 551, c. 479 BCE), born Kong Qiu, was a Chinese philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period who is traditionally considered the paragon of Chinese sages.
New World Encyclopedia: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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He was a "Man of the Enlightenment" in the same vein as Goethe in Germany and Coleridge in England.
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