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Dualism

Key Figures: Plato, Rene Descartes, E.J. Lowe, Thomas Nagel, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Thomas Reid, etc.

Egalitarianism

Key Figures: John Rawls, John Locke, Adam Smith, Ronald Dworkin, G.A. Cohen, etc.

Egoism

Key Figures: Thomas Hobbes, Ayn Rand, Jeremy Bentham, Henry Sidgwick, Max Stirner, etc.

Eliminative Materialism

Key Figures: Richard Rorty, Paul Churchland, James Cornman, Steven Stich, Daniel Dennett, etc.

Empiricism

Key Figures: David Hume, George Berkeley, John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Francis Bacon, Thomas Reid, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, etc.

Enlightenment

Key Figures: Immanuel Kant, Rene Descartes, Francis Bacon, Gottfried Leibniz, Thomas Hobbes, David Hume, John Locke, J.J. Rousseau, etc.

Environmental Ethics

Key Figures: Rachel Carson, Paul Ehrlich, Arne Naess, John Passmore, Bryan Norton, Aldo Leopold, etc.

Epistemology

Key Figures: David Hume, Rene Descartes, Immanuel Kant, George Berkeley, Plato, John Locke, Edmund Gettier, Bertrand Russel, etc.

Essentialism

Key Figures: Plato, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Descartes, Avicenna (Ibd Sina), etc.

Ethics

Key Figures: Immanuel Kant, Jeremy Bentham, Aristotle, John Stuart Mill, Confucius, G. E. M. Anscombe, Friedrich Nietzsche, etc.

Eudaimonia

Key Figures: Aristotle, Plato, Cicero, the Stoics (as a whole), G.E.M. Anscombe, etc.

Existentialism

Key Figures: Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Søren Kierkegaard, Karl Jaspers, Martin Heidegger, etc.

Feminist Philosophy

Key Figures: Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Addams, Simone de Beauvoir, Mary Astell, Rosa Luxemburg, Iris Murdoch, etc.

Hedonism

Key Figures: Epicurus, Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle, Henry Sidgwick, Robert Nozick, etc.

Hylomorphism

Key Figures: Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Plato, Ibn Gabirol (Avicebron), Bonaventure, etc.

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