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Victor Hugo
French novelist, poet, dramatist and politician (1802–1885)
Voltaire
François-Marie Arouet (; 21 November 169430 May 1778), known by his pen name Voltaire (, ; ), was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher (philosophe), satirist, and historian. Famous for his wit and his criticism of Christianity (especially of the Catholic Church) and of slavery, Voltaire was an advocate of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and separation of church and state.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer (1712-1778)
Thomas Paine
American Founding Father, philosopher, and political activist (1737–1809)
Giuseppe Mazzini
Italian nationalist activist, politician, journalist and philosopher
Olympe de Gouges
French playwright and political activist (1748–1793)
al-Ma'arri
'''Abu al-Ala al-Ma'arri (; December 973May 1057), also known by his Latin name Abulola Moarrensis''', was an Arab philosopher, poet, and writer from Ma'arrat al-Nu'man, Emirate of Aleppo (in present day Syria). Because of his antireligious worldview, he is known as one of the "foremost atheists" of his time", although his worldview was closer to deism. However, in his defensive treatise Zajr al-Nabeh (The Repelling of the Barker)—a manuscript edited and published in 1965—al-Ma'arri explicitly identified himself as a faithful Muslim and systematically refuted the accusations of heresy leveled
Themistius
Themistius ( ; 317 – c. 388 AD), nicknamed Euphrades (, "eloquent"), was a statesman, rhetorician and philosopher. He flourished in the reigns of Constantius II, Julian, Jovian, Valens, Gratian and Theodosius I, and he enjoyed the favour of all those emperors, notwithstanding their many differences and the fact that he himself was not a Christian. He was admitted to the senate by Constantius in 355, and he was prefect of Constantinople in 384 on the nomination of Theodosius. Of his many works, thirty-three orations of his have come down to us, as well as various commentaries and epitomes of th
Constantin-François Chassebœuf
French philosopher, historian, orientalist, and politician (1757-1820)
Lysander Spooner
American political philosopher, essayist, pamphlet writer, Unitarian, abolitionist, individualist anarchist, legal theorist, a member of the socialist First International and entrepreneur of the 19th century (1808–1887)
Antony Flew
British analytic and evidentialist philosopher (1923-2010)
Karl Christian Friedrich Krause
German philosopher
Anthony Collins
English philosopher (1676-1729)
Isabel Paterson
author and editor (1886–1961)
Matthew Tindal
philosopher
Alcinous
ancient Greek philosopher
Yaqob Zera
Ethiopian philosopher
Theophilos Kairis
Greek priest and revolutionary (1784-1853)
Charles Blount
English deist and philosopher (1654-1693)
Traian Herseni
Romanian sociologist, historian and psychologist (1907-1980)
Thomas Chubb
British philosopher (1679-1747)
Elihu Palmer
American philosopher
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