AI Philosophers
Engage in Socratic dialogue, explore ethics, and test ideas with AI versions of history's greatest philosophers.
36 historical figures available
Abraham Heschel
1907-1972
The rabbi who turned awe into justice.
Adam Smith
1723-1790 CE
The philosopher who traced how sympathy grounds morality and how markets coordinate labor, founding both moral psychology and classical economics.
Adi Shankara
c. 8th century CE
The wandering teacher who showed that liberation is not achievement but recognition of what you already are
Al-Ghazali
1058-1111 CE
Theologian who bridged philosophy and Sufism
Albert Einstein
1879-1955 CE
The dreamer who bent space, stretched time, and changed everything
Aristotle
384-322 BCE
The philosopher who organized all of human knowledge, and taught us how to think
Baal Shem Tov
c. 1698-1760 CE
Mystic teacher who sparked Hasidism and made joy the path to God.
Dante Alighieri
1265-1321 CE
The exiled poet who mapped Hell, climbed Purgatory, and glimpsed Paradise, then told the tale
Emmanuel Levinas
1906-1995 CE
The philosopher who put ethics before ontology.
Franz Rosenzweig
1886-1929 CE
The philosopher who turned back from conversion, and rethought everything from the fear of death.
Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900 CE
The philosopher who diagnosed the death of God, traced morality to its origins in ressentiment, and called for a revaluation of all values grounded in life-affirmation.
Ibn Khaldun
1332-1406 CE
The Tunisian scholar who founded the scientific study of history and society through his analysis of ʿasabiyyah.
Ibn Rushd
1126-1198 CE
The Commentator, who proved that faith and reason speak with one voice when both are true
Ibn Sīnā
980-1037 CE
The Prince of Physicians who unified medicine and philosophy into a complete science of body and soul
Immanuel Kant
1724-1804 CE
The philosopher who never left home, and remapped the entire landscape of human thought
Jesus Christ
c. 4 BCE–c. 30 CE
The carpenter from Nazareth whose teachings on love, mercy, and the kingdom of God changed the world
John Locke
1632-1704 CE
The philosopher who grounded knowledge in experience and government in consent, providing intellectual foundations for constitutional democracy.
Karl Marx
1818-1883 CE
The philosopher who traced capitalism's laws of motion and proclaimed that the point was not merely to interpret the world but to change it.
Kong Qiu
551-479 BCE
The Master whose teachings on virtue and ritual shaped a civilization
Laozi
6th–4th century BCE
The sage who wrote five thousand characters on the Way, then vanished into the mountains
Marcus Aurelius
121-180 CE
The philosopher-emperor who ruled Rome while writing notes on how to rule himself
Marcus Cicero
106-43 BCE
The voice of the Republic, who spoke truth to power until power silenced him.
Martin Buber
1878-1965 CE
Philosopher of the I–Thou encounter.
Moses Mendelssohn
1729-1786 CE
Voice of the Jewish Enlightenment.
Nāgārjuna
c. 150-250 CE
The philosopher who proved that emptiness is not void but the very possibility of change, connection, and compassion
Niccolò Machiavelli
1469-1527 CE
The Florentine diplomat who scandalized the world by writing what politicians actually do, while secretly championing republican liberty.
Plato
c. 428-348 BCE
The philosopher who saw beyond shadows and built a school that lasted nine centuries
Rabindranath Tagore
1861-1941 CE
The poet who made Bengal sing to the world, and who built a university under the trees.
René Descartes
1596-1650 CE
The doubter who found certainty, and invented modern philosophy along the way
Saadia Gaon
882-942 CE
Rationalist defender of Torah and tradition.
Siddhartha Gautama
c. 563-483 BCE
The prince who renounced everything to find freedom from suffering, and taught the world the way
Socrates
470-399 BCE
The barefoot questioner who taught Athens to think, and died rather than stop
Thomas Aquinas
1225-1274 CE
The gentle genius who married Aristotle to Christ, and changed how the West thinks
Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826 CE
Author of the Declaration of Independence, champion of religious freedom, and founder of the University of Virginia, a man whose ideals shaped a nation even as his contradictions haunted it.
Voltaire
1694-1778 CE
The wit who made Europe laugh at its tyrants, and think for itself
Zhu Xi
1130-1200 CE
The master who made Neo-Confucianism the curriculum of East Asian civilization.
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