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Viktor Emil Frankl (March 26, 1905 – September 2, 1997) was an Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist, philosopher, writer, and Holocaust survivor. He authored numerous works, many of which have been translated and reprinted in Japanese...

Plato was a philosopher of Athens during the classical period of ancient Greece, the founder of Platonic thought, and the founder of the academy, the first institution of higher education in the Western world. Along with his teacher Socrates and his most famous disciple Aristotle, he contributed to the development of ancient Greek and Western thought...

Albert Einstein was a German theoretical physicist. He is considered the greatest physicist of the 20th century and the father of modern physics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921 for his theoretical explanation of the photoelectric effect based on the quantum hypothesis of light. Einstein's personality type: *...

Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher. A student of Plato, he is considered one of the greatest philosophers of the "Western" world, along with Socrates and Plato. Due to his extensive work in the study of nature, he is also called the "father of all sciences." Aristotle believed that human nature is inherently driven by a "love of knowledge"...

Socrates was an ancient Greek philosopher. Along with Aristotle and Plato, he is considered one of the greatest philosophers of the "Western" world. Socrates received an oracle from Apollo stating that "no one is wiser than Socrates," and to verify this, he engaged in dialogues and debates with people. However, in 3 BC...

Confucius was a Chinese thinker and philosopher widely known worldwide as the founder of Confucianism. He was one of the Hundred Schools of Thought (a group of thinkers active in ancient China, including Lao Tzu and Sun Tzu) and is counted among the Four Sages, alongside Buddha, Christ, and Socrates. His works were compiled by his disciples over approximately 400 years after his death...

William James was a leading American philosopher and psychologist, alongside Nietzsche. Along with Charles Sanders Peirce and John Dewey, he was a "pragmatist" (someone who believed that the truth of things is judged by the results of actual experience...).

Lao Tzu was an ancient Chinese philosopher and thinker. He was one of the Hundred Schools of Thought (a group of thinkers who flourished in ancient China, including Confucius and Sun Tzu). He is known as a central figure in the creation of Taoism and is considered the author of the book *Lao Tzu* (Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching/a Chinese classic), but much of his life remains unknown, and in reality...

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German classical philologist and amateur philosopher. He is known today as one of the leading thinkers of existentialism. Nietzsche famously declared "God is dead," a statement that criticized modernization...