1929–1968 · Contemporary
Martin Luther King Jr.
Political Thought
Leader of nonviolent civil rights, justice, and beloved community.
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1864–1920 · Modern
Max Weber
Sociology
Sociologist of authority, bureaucracy, rationalization, and meaning.
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1877–1938 · Modern
Muhammad Iqbal
Philosophy
Joined poetry and philosophy to rethink Muslim selfhood, freedom, and renewal in a modern world.
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1858–1922 · Modern
Pandita Ramabai
Social Reform
Feminist reformer of women’s education, religion, and social care.
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c. 570–495 BCE · Ancient
Pythagoras
Mathematics
Linked mathematics, music, proportion, community, and metaphysics into one of antiquity’s most influential traditions.
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1207–1273 · Medieval
Rumi
Poetry
Gave mystical love a poetic language that still crosses religions, cultures, and centuries.
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1888–1975 · Contemporary
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Philosophy
Philosopher of Indian thought, comparative religion, and education.
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1933–present · Contemporary
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Philosophy
Brought Islamic metaphysics and sacred ecology into critique of modern disenchantment and ecological crisis.
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c. 1797–1883 · Modern
Sojourner Truth
Political Thought
Abolitionist feminist voice of dignity, faith, and equal humanity.
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1813–1855 · Modern
Søren Kierkegaard
Philosophy
Explored anxiety, despair, faith, choice, irony, and the single individual before God and society.
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1872–1950 · Contemporary
Sri Aurobindo
Philosophy
Thinker of integral yoga, evolution, and spiritual transformation.
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1935–present · Contemporary
The Dalai Lama
Religious Thought
Tibetan Buddhist leader of compassion, exile, and secular ethics.
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1933–2005 · Contemporary
Vine Deloria Jr.
Indigenous Thought
Forced American thought to confront land, sovereignty, religion, and Indigenous intellectual authority.
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1842–1910 · Modern
William James
Psychology
Joined philosophy and psychology around lived experience, attention, religious experience, and practical consequences.
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1903–1994 · Contemporary
Yeshayahu Leibowitz
Philosophy
Forced Jewish and Israeli thought to confront the moral danger of sanctifying power.
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c. 369–286 BCE · Classical
Zhuangzi
Philosophy
Daoist philosopher of transformation, freedom, and playful skepticism.
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