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Philosopher

Philosopher Meaning & Definition
Philosopher Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Philosopher?

[n]
[n] a wise person who is calm and rational; someone who lives a life of reason with equanimity

Synonyms | Synonyms for Philosopher:

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See Also | 1st Baron Verulam | Abelard | aesthetician | Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius | Aristotle | Auguste Comte | Bacon | Baron Verulam | Bentham | Bergson | Berkeley | Bishop Berkeley | Boethius | Bruno | Buber | Cassirer | Cleanthes | Comte | Confucius | David Hartley | David Hume | Democritus | Denis Diderot | Derrida | Descartes | Dewey | Diderot | Diogenes | eclectic | eclecticist | Edmund Husserl | Empedocles | empiricist | Epicurus | epistemologist | Ernst Cassirer | Ernst Heinrich Haeckel | esthetician | ethician | ethicist | existentialist | Francis Bacon | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | George Berkeley | Giordano Bruno | Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz | Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz | gymnosophist | Haeckel | Hartley | Hegel | Heidegger | Henri Bergson | Henri Louis Bergson | Heraclitus | Herbart | Herder | Hobbes | human | Hume | Husserl | Hypatia | Immanuel Kant | individual | intellect | intellectual | Isidore Auguste Marie Francois Comte | Jacques Derrida | James | Jeremy Bentham | Johann Friedrich Herbart | Johann Gottfried von Herder | John Dewey | Kant | Kierkegaard | Kung futzu | Lao-tse | Lao-tzu | Lao-zi | Leibnitz | Leibniz | libertarian | Martin Buber | Martin Heidegger | mechanist | moralist | mortal | nativist | necessitarian | person | Peter Abelard | Pierre Abelard | pluralist | realist | Rene Descartes | somebody | someone | Soren Aabye Kierkegaard | Soren Kierkegaard | soul | Stoic | Thomas Hobbes | transcendentalist | Viscount St. Albans | William James | yogi

Philosopher In Webster's Dictionary

\Phi*los"o*pher\, n. [OE. philosophre, F. philosophe, L. philosophus, Gr. ?; ? loving + ? wise. Cf. {Philosophy}.] 1. One who philosophizes; one versed in, or devoted to, philosophy. Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoics, encountered him. --Acts xvii. 18. 2. One who reduces the principles of philosophy to practice in the conduct of life; one who lives according to the rules of practical wisdom; one who meets or regards all vicissitudes with calmness. 3. An alchemist. [Obs.] --Chaucer. {Philosopher's stone}, an imaginary stone which the alchemists formerly sought as instrument of converting the baser metals into gold.

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