thinker
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Genuine liberal arts learning requires students to wrestle with the best that has been written and said by the most rigorous thinkers, living and dead, on all sides of the issues.
Mr. Stoppard insisted, through his works, that theater could and should engage with ideas, with philosophy, with the vast knowledge amassed by writers and thinkers of many ages.
The Coast of Utopia was a massive trilogy about the 19th Century Russian liberal thinker, Alexander Herzen: coolly received at the National Theatre in London, it was a huge success in New York.
From BBC
But the roots of this development, he contends, lie even further back—in the classical texts that early modern thinkers read and absorbed.
Mary Wollstonecraft, the foremost female thinker of the 18th-century Enlightenment, published “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” shortly before Austen began her writing career.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.