Al-Ghazali
1058 – 1111 · Iran · Philosophy, Theology
Reoriented Islamic thought toward inwardness and challenged the philosophers on their own ground.
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- René Descartes
1596 – 1650 · Philosophy, Mathematics
The Incoherence's method of universal doubt prefigures the Cartesian meditation.
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