philosopher
noun
1 philosopher
A specialist in philosophy.
Roget 492: scholar, connoisseur, savant, pundit, schoolman†, professor, graduate, wrangler; academician, academist†; master of arts, doctor, licentitate, gownsman; philosopher, master of math; scientist, clerk; sophist, sophister†; linguist; glossolinguist, philologist; philologer†; lexicographer, glossographer; grammarian; litterateur [Fr.], literati, dilettanti, illuminati, cogniscenti [It]; fellow, Hebraist, lexicologist, mullah, munshi†, Sanskritish; sinologist, sinologue†; Mezzofanti†, admirable Crichton, Mecaenas. bookworm, helluo librorum [Lat.]; bibliophile, bibliomaniac†; bluestocking, bas-bleu [Fr.]; bigwig, learned Theban, don; Artium Baccalaureus [Lat.], Artium Magister [Lat.]. learned man, literary man; homo multarum literarum [Lat.]; man of learning, man of letters, man of education, man of genius. antiquarian, antiquary; archaeologist. sage etc. (wise man) 500. pedant, doctrinaire; pedagogue, Dr. Pangloss; pantologist†, criminologist. schoolboy etc. (learner) 541. ... show more
is a specific kind of: bookman, scholar, scholarly person, student.
is a broader term that covers: nativist | Cynic | eclectic, eclecticist | empiricist | epistemologist | aesthetician, esthetician | ethician, ethicist | existential philosopher, existentialist, existentialist philosopher | gymnosophist | libertarian | mechanist | moralist | naturalist | necessitarian | nominalist | pluralist | pre-Socratic | realist | Scholastic | Sophist | Stoic | transcendentalist | yogi | Karl Popper, Popper, Sir Karl Raimund Popper ... show more.
instances of which are: Abelard, Peter Abelard, Pierre Abelard | Anaxagoras | Anaximander | Anaximenes | Arendt, Hannah Arendt | Aristotle | Abul-Walid Mohammed ibn-Ahmad Ibn-Mohammed ibn-Roshd, Averroes, ibn-Roshd | Abu Ali al-Husain ibn Abdallah ibn Sina, Avicenna, ibn-Sina | 1st Baron Verulam, Bacon, Baron Verulam, Francis Bacon, Sir Francis Bacon, Viscount St. Albans | Bentham, Jeremy Bentham | Bergson, Henri Bergson, Henri Louis Bergson | Berkeley, Bishop Berkeley, George Berkeley | Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, Boethius | Bruno, Giordano Bruno | Buber, Martin Buber | Cassirer, Ernst Cassirer | Cleanthes | Auguste Comte, Comte, Isidore Auguste Marie Francois Comte | Condorcet, Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet | Confucius, K'ung Futzu, Kong the Master, Kongfuze | Democritus | Derrida, Jacques Derrida | Descartes, Rene Descartes | Dewey, John Dewey | Denis Diderot, Diderot | baron d'Holbach, d'Holbach, Dietrich, Paul-Henri Thiry, Paul Heinrich Dietrich, Thiry | Diogenes | Empedocles | Epictetus | Epicurus | Ernst Heinrich Haeckel, Haeckel | David Hartley, Hartley | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel | Heraclitus | Herbart, Johann Friedrich Herbart | Herder, Johann Gottfried von Herder | Hobbes, Thomas Hobbes | David Hume, Hume | Edmund Husserl, Husserl | Hypatia | James, William James | Immanuel Kant, Kant | Kierkegaard, Soren Aabye Kierkegaard, Soren Kierkegaard | Lao-tse, Lao-tzu, Lao-zi | Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Leibnitz, Leibniz | John Locke, Locke | Lucretius, Titus Lucretius Carus | Lully, Ramon Lully, Raymond Lully | Ernst Mach, Mach | Machiavelli, Niccolo Machiavelli | Maimonides, Moses Maimonides, Rabbi Moses Ben Maimon | Malebranche, Nicolas de Malebranche | Herbert Marcuse, Marcuse | Karl Marx, Marx | George Herbert Mead, Mead | John Mill, John Stuart Mill, Mill | James Mill, Mill | Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu, Charles Louis de Secondat, Montesquieu | G. E. Moore, George Edward Moore, Moore | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Nietzsche | Occam, Ockham, William of Occam, William of Ockham | Origen | Jose Ortega y Gasset, Ortega y Gasset | Parmenides | Blaise Pascal, Pascal | Charles Peirce, Charles Sanders Peirce, Peirce | Perry, Ralph Barton Perry | Plato | Plotinus | Pythagoras | Quine, W. V. Quine, Willard Van Orman Quine | Radhakrishnan, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan | Reid, Thomas Reid | Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Rousseau | Bertrand Arthur William Russell, Bertrand Russell, Earl Russell, Russell | Arthur Schopenhauer, Schopenhauer | Albert Schweitzer, Schweitzer | Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Seneca | Socrates | Herbert Spencer, Spencer | Oswald Spengler, Spengler | Baruch de Spinoza, Benedict de Spinoza, de Spinoza, Spinoza | Rudolf Steiner, Steiner | Dugald Stewart, Stewart | Rabindranath Tagore, Sir Rabindranath Tagore, Tagore | Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Teilhard de Chardin | Thales, Thales of Miletus | Theophrastus | Simone Weil, Weil | Alfred North Whitehead, Whitehead | Bernard Arthur Owen Williams, Sir Bernard Williams, Williams | Ludwig Josef Johan Wittgenstein, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Wittgenstein | Xenophanes | Zeno, Zeno of Citium | Zeno, Zeno of Elea ... show more.
domain category: philosophy.
derivation: philosophic, philosophical.
Dutch: filosoof
Polish: filozof, myśliciel
2 philosopher
A wise person who is calm and rational; someone who lives a life of reason with equanimity.
is a specific kind of: individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul.
derivation: doctrine, ism, philosophical system, philosophy, school of thought | philosophy | philosophy | philosophic, philosophical.
Dutch: denker, filosoof, wijsgeer
Moby thesaurus: Abelard, Albertus Magnus, Albinus, Alexander, Anaxagoras, Anselm, Averroist, Bacon, Berkeleian, Berkeley, Boethius, Bonaventure, Boodin, Bosanquet, Bowne, Broad, Bruno, Cartesian, Chubb, Cicero, Comtist, Condillac, Condorcet, Confucius, Cousin, Croce, Cynic, Cyrenaic, Drake, Eleatic, Epicurean, Eretrian, Euhemerus, Fechner, Feigl, Ferdinand, Fichtean, Frege, Fullerton, Gentile, Gilson, Green, Haeckel, Hahn, Haldane, Harris, Hartmann, Hegel, Hegelian, Heidegger, Heideggerian, Heraclitean, Heraclitus, Herbart, Herbartian, Herder, Hobbes, Holt, Howison, Hume, Humist, Husserl, Husserlian, Hutcheson, John, Kantian, Kierkegaard, Kierkegaardian, La Mettrie, Langer, Leibniz, Leibnizian, Leucippus, Locke, Lotze, Lovejoy, Lucretius, Mach, Marx, Marxist, Mead, Megarian, Mencius, Mill, Moore, Moses, Neo-Hegelian, Neo-Pythagorean, Neoplatonist, Ockham, Ortega y Gasset, Paley, Parmenidean, Parmenides, Pascal, Peripatetic, Perry, Philo, Plato, Platonist, Plotinus, Porphyry, Pratt, Pritchard, Protagoras, Pyrrho, Pyrrhonist, Pythagoras, Pythagorean, Reid, Reynaud, Roger, Rogers, Ross, Rousseau, Royce, Russell, Samuel, Santayana, Sartre, Sartrian, Scheler, Schelling, Schiller, Schleiermacher, Schlick, Scholastic, Schopenhauer, Scotist, Sellars, Socrates, Socratist, Sophist, Spencerian, Spinozist, Stern, Stoic, Strong, Thales, Thomas Aquinas, Thomist, Whitehead, Wittgensteinian, academician, agnostic, animist, authority, bookman, casuist, classicist, clerk, colossus of knowledge, cosmologist, cosmotheist, deist, dialectical materialist, dialectician, doctor, dualist, eclectic, egoist, elder, elder statesman, empiricist, essentialist, existentialist, genius, giant of learning, great soul, guru, hedonist, humanist, hylomorphist, hylotheist, hylozoist, idealist, illuminate, immaterialist, individualist, intellect, intellectual, intuitionist, learned clerk, learned man, literary man, litterateur, logical empiricist, logicaster, logician, logistician, lover of learning, lover of wisdom, mahatma, man of intellect, man of learning, man of letters, man of wisdom, mandarin, master, mastermind, materialist, mechanist, mentalist, mentor, metaphysician, mine of information, monist, mystic, naturalist, nominalist, ontologist, oracle, organic mechanist, organicist, panpsychist, pantheist, philologist, philologue, philomath, philosophaster, philosophe, philosophizer, physicist, polyhistor, polymath, positivist, pragmatist, psychist, pundit, rabbi, ratiocinator, rationalist, rationalizer, realist, reasoner, rishi, sage, sapient, savant, scholar, scholastic, schoolman, secular humanist, seer, sensationalist, sensist, skeptic, sophist, speculator, starets, student, substantialist, syllogist, syllogizer, syncretist, theist, thinker, transcendentalist, utilitarian, vitalist, voluntarist, walking encyclopedia, wise man, wise old man, zetetic ... show more.
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