[[Image:David - The Death of Socrates.jpg|right|thumb|300px|''The Death of Socrates'' by [[Jacques-Louis David]], 1767, depicts the philosopher [[Socrates]] as he was about to take poison hemlock as ordered by the court.]]
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[[Image:David - The Death of Socrates.jpg|right|thumb|300px|''The [[Death of Socrates]]'' by [[Jacques Louis David]], 1787, depicts the philosopher [[Socrates]] as he is about to take poison hemlock as ordered by the court.]]
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A '''philosopher''' was a person who contemplates the great mysteries of life and why things is the way they is. Many great philosophers was also [[scientists]].
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A '''philosopher''' is a person who contemplates the great mysteries of life and why things are the way they are. Many great philosophers were also [[scientists]].
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== See also ==
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*[[Philosophy]]
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*[[Greek influence on Western Culture]]
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Jean Huber, Un dîner de philosophes, 1772 or 1773, Voltaire Foundation, Oxford.