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Thinkers
Thinkers whose arguments, critiques, and frameworks shaped major intellectual debates.
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Modern
Sun Yat-sen
Linked nationalism, democracy, and livelihood in a program for Chinese republican revolution.
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Swami Vivekananda
Presented Vedanta and yoga to global audiences and helped shape modern Hindu self-understanding.
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Thomas Henry Huxley
Coined and defended agnosticism as a discipline of not claiming knowledge beyond evidence.
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bell hooks
Centered race, class, love, education, and everyday power in accessible feminist critique.
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