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Originally Posted by maddog
Michel de Montaigne
Marcus Aurelius
Aristotle
Blaise Pascal
Nietzsche
Thoreau
Sartre
and that's just off the top of my head.
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Thanks. that is a nice list. I have read something by all of them. Montaigne, however, is the only one I would think of as a contemplative in his later years when he retired to his estate and wrote. That is where I am for the past 2 years, except I don't have a estate.
Marcus Aurelius was a king and stoic who persecuted Christians.
Aristotle was the founder of the Peripatetic school and teacher of many students who took notes which we have today as Aristotle's writings. Aristotle himself didn't write anything which I know of.
Pascal was very religious and wrote Christian apologetics. I don't know anything about his own life.
Nietzsche was more an individualist and closely connected to his family and Wagner. He did a lot of traveling.
Thoreau also was more an individualist and nature lover. He was closely connected to his mother. He did more or less recluse himself for some time at Walden Pond.
Sartre was a college professor and political activist. He had a long term relationship with Simone de Beauvoir to whom he proposed 3 times but was refused 3 times.