User:FrederickII

I have a great Interest for History, Philosophy, Politics, and Theology,i like Western Culture and Ideas particularly European ones, however i'm also interested in eastern ideas aswell.

List of People I like or admire
This is the list of people i like or admire, i will be adding more people (since i have a large list)

note:some are in chronological order.

Philosophy and Theology
List of Philosophers and Theologians I like/find interesting. 1.Thales of Miletus 2.Anaximander 3.Pythagoras 4.Laozi 5.Heraclitus 6.Confucius 7.Parmenides 8.Anaxagoras 9.Zeno of Elea 10.Empedocles 11.Socrates 12.Democritus 13.Antisthenes 14.Plato 15.Xenophon 16.Aristotle 17.Diogenes 18.Zeno of Citium 19.Pyrrho 20.Epicurus 21.Chrysippus 22.Lucretius 23.Cato the Younger 24.Cicero 25.Virgil 26.Philo of Alexandria 27.Seneca the Younger 28.Sextus Empiricus 29.Plutarch 30.Epictetus 31.Marcus Aurelius 32.Tacitus 33.Justin Martyr 34.Tertullian 35.Irenaeus 36.The Desert Fathers 37.Clement of Alexandria 38.Origen 39.Plotinus 40.Athanasius of Alexandria 41.Basil of Caesarea 42.Gregory of Nyssa 43.Gregory of Nazianzus 44.John Chrysostom 45.Augustine of Hippo 46.Saint Jerome 47.Maximus the Confessor 48.Boethius 49.Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite 50.Al-Kindi 51.John Scotus Eriugena 52.Al-Farabi 53.Avicenna 54.Ibn al-Haytham 55.Anselm of Canterbury 56.Peter Abelard 57.Averroes 58.Maimonides 59.Francis of Assisi 60.Robert Grosseteste 61.Albertus Magnus 62.Thomas Aquinas 63.Bonaventure 64.Roger Bacon 65.Duns Scotus 66.William of Ockham 67.Dante Alighieri 68.Hildegard of Bingen 69.Meister Eckhart 70.Nicholas of Cusa 71.Marsilio Ficino 72.Giovanni Pico della Mirandola 73.Niccolo Machiavelli 74.Desiderius Erasmus 75.Thomas More 76.Martin Luther 77.Philip Melanchthon 78.Huldrych Zwingli 79.John Calvin 80.William Tyndale 81.Michel de Montaigne 82.Ignatius of Loyola 83.Justus Lipsius 84.John Knox 85.Giordano Bruno 86.Jean Bodin 87.Thomas Cranmer 88.Luis de Molina 89.Jacobus Arminius 90.Francisco Suarez 91.Francis Bacon 92.Hugo Grotius 93.Pierre Gassendi 94.Rene Descartes 95.John Milton 96.Thomas Hobbes 97.Thomas Browne 98.Blaise Pascal 99.Robert Boyle 100.Baruch Spinoza 101.John Locke 102.Nicolas Malebranche 103.Isaac Newton 104.Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 105.Giambattista Vico 106.Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke 107.Christian Wolff 108.George Berkeley 109.Montesquieu 110.Francis Hutcheson 111.Voltaire 112.Thomas Reid 113.David Hume 114.Jean-Jacques Rousseau 115.Claude Adrien Helvétius 116.Jean le Rond d'Alembert 117.Johann Georg Hamann 118.Adam Smith 119.Edmund Burke 120.Moses Mendelssohn 121.Immanuel Kant 122.Thomas Paine 123.Cesare Beccaria 124.William Paley 125.Johann Gottfried Herder 126.Jeremy Bentham 127.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 128.Friedrich Schiller 129.Johann Gottlieb Fichte 130.Joseph de Maistre 131.Friedrich Schleiermacher 132.Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 133.Alexander von Humboldt 134.Benjamin Constant 135.Francois Guizot 136.Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling 137.Arthur Schopenhauer 138.John Henry Newman 139.Ralph Waldo Emerson 140.Alexis de Tocqueville 141.John Stuart Mill 142.Søren Kierkegaard 143.Henry David Thoreau 144.Fyodor Dostoevsky 145.Henry George 146.Charles Sanders Peirce 147.William James 148.Friedrich Nietzsche 149.Gottlob Frege 150.Vladimir Solovyov 151.Émile Durkheim 152.Edmund Husserl 153.Henri Bergson 154.John Dewey 155.Alfred North Whitehead 156.Karl Jaspers 157.Max Weber 158.Sergei Bulgakov 159.George Santayana 160.Bertrand Russell 161.G.E. Moore 162.Nikolai Berdyaev 163.G.K. Chesterton 164.Carl Jung 165.Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 166.Martin Buber 167.Jacques Maritain 168.Pavel Florensky 169.Rudolf Bultmann 170.Paul Tillich 171.Karl Barth 172.Ludwig Wittgenstein 173.Gabriel Marcel 174.Martin Heidegger 175.Reinhold Niebuhr 176.Karl Popper 177.Theodor W. Adorno 178.Jean-Paul Sartre 179.Willard Van Orman Quine 180.Albert Camus 181.Thomas Merton 182.Russell Kirk 183.Maurice Merleau-Ponty 184.Raymond Aron 185.Bernard Williams 186.Jürgen Habermas 187.Alasdair MacIntyre 188.Jacques Derrida 189.Alvin Plantinga 190.Saul Kripke 191.Charles Taylor 192.Rowan Williams 192.Stanley Hauerwas 193.N.T. Wright
 * listed in chronological order
 * information here https://plato.stanford.edu

List of Historical People I Admire
1.Jesus

2.Theodore Roosevelt

3.Isaac Newton

4.Alexander the Great

5.Napoleon

6.Julius Caesar

7.Horatio Nelson

8.Marcus Tullius Cicero

9.Hannibal

10.Abraham Lincoln

11.Marcus Aurelius

12.Leonardo da Vinci

13.Winston Churchill

14.George Washington

15.Justinian the Great

16.Otto von Bismarck

17.Thomas Jefferson

18.John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough

19.Trajan

20.Flavius Belisarius

21.Alexander Hamilton

22.Gustavus Adolphus

23.Albert Einstein

24.Augustus

25.Franklin D. Roosevelt

26.Fyodor Dostoevsky

27.Cyrus the Great

28.Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

29.Aristotle

30.Leo Tolstoy

31.Rene Descartes

32.Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa

33.Yi Sun Sin

34.James Clerk Maxwell

35.Alexander Suvorov

36.Plato

37.William Shakespeare

38.Pope John Paul II

39.Edmund Burke

40.William the Conqueror

41.Scipio Africanus

42.Frederick the Great

43.Dwight D. Eisenhower

44.Alexis de Tocqueville

45.John D. Rockefeller

46.Thomas Aquinas

47.Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

48.John Locke

49.Benjamin Disraeli

50.Soren Kierkegaard

51.Desiderius Erasmus

52.Matthias Corvinus

53.Baldwin IV of Jerusalem

54.Charles Dickens

55.William Ewart Gladstone

56.Marquis de Lafayette

57.Skanderbeg

58.Immanuel Kant

59.Johann Sebastian Bach

60.William Wilberforce

61.Stephen III of Moldavia

62.Saladin

63.J.R.R. Tolkien

64.Francis Bacon

65.Johannes Kepler

66.Werner Heisenberg

67.Pericles

68.G.K. Chesterton

69.Henry V of England

70.Charles Babbage

71.Michael Faraday

72.Benjamin Franklin

73.Confucius

74.John Hunyadi

75.Thomas More

76.Michelangelo

77.Henry George

78.C.S. Lewis

79.Ludwig van Beethoven

80.Louis Pasteur

81.Saint Augustine

82.Carl von Clausewitz

83.Alfred the Great

84.Dorothy Day

85.Martin Luther King Jr.

86.Prince Eugene of Savoy

87.Gonzalo Fernandez de Cordoba

88.William Pitt the Younger

89.Antoni Gaudi

90.Miyamoto Musashi

91.Jan Zizka

92.Ulysses S. Grant

93.Andrew Carnegie

94.John Adams

95.Diana, Princess of Wales

96.Jane Austen

97.Kurt Vonnegut

98.Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

99.Frederic Chopin

100.Patrick Henry

101.Albrecht von Wallenstein

102.Antoine Lavoisier

List of Painters, Sculptors and Architects i like
Painters and Sculptors 1.Phidias 2.Cimabue 3.Arnolfo di Lapo 4.Nicola Pisano 5.Giovanni Pisano 6.Margaritone 7.Giotto 8.Pietro Lorenzetti 9.Buonamico Buffalmacco 10.Ambrogio Lorenzetti 11.Luca della Robbia 12.Lorenzo Ghiberti 13.Paolo Uccello 14.Masaccio 15.Donatello 16.Michelozzo 17.Jan van Eyck 18.Piero della Francesca 19.Fra Angelico 20.Leon Battista Alberti 21.Antonello da Messina 22.Andrea del Castagno 23.Verrochio 24.Benozzo Gozzoli 25.Sandro Botticelli 26.Antonio del Pollaiolo 27.Domenico Ghirlandaio 28.Filippino Lippi 29.Andrea Mantegna 30.Vittore Carpaccio 31.Luca Signorelli 32.Leonardo da Vinci 33.Fra Bartolomeo 34.Albrecht Durer 35.Andrea del Sarto 36.Lucas Cranach the Elder 37.Michelangelo 38.Lorenzo di Credi 39.Raphael 40.Titian 41.Bartolommeo Bandinelli 42.Federico Zuccari 43.Giorgio Vasari 44.Tintoretto 45.Pieter Bruegel the Elder 46.El Greco 47.Caravaggio 48.Peter Paul Rubens 49.Frans Hals 50.Nicolas Poussin 51.Gian Lorenzo Bernini 52.Anthony van Dyck 53.Diego Velázquez 54.Rembrandt 55.Johannes Vermeer 56.Joshua Reynolds 57.Benjamin West 58.Francisco Goya 59.William Blake 60.John Trumbull 61.J. M. W. Turner 62.Samuel Morse 63.Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot 64.Eugène Delacroix 65.Gustave Courbet 66.Gustave Doré 67.Édouard Manet 68.Edgar Degas 69.Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi 70.Paul Cézanne 71.Claude Monet 72.Auguste Rodin 73.Pierre-Auguste Renoir 74.Mary Cassatt 75.Vincent van Gogh 76.John Singer Sargent 77.Georges Seurat 78.Gustav Klimt 79.Edvard Munch 80.Wassily Kandinsky 81.Henri Matisse 82.Piet Mondrian 83.Paul Klee 84.Pablo Picasso 85.Edward Hopper 86.Amedeo Modigliani 87.Diego Rivera 88.Marcel Duchamp 89.Marc Chagall 90.Joan Miró 91.M.C. Escher 92.Alexander Calder 93.Salvador Dalí 94.Francis Bacon 95.Jackson Pollock 96.Andy Warhol

Architects i like 1.Imhotep 2.Vitruvius 3.Filippo Brunelleschi 4.Leon Battista Alberti 5.Leonardo da Vinci 6.Michelangelo 7.Raphael 8.Andrea Palladio 9.Giorgio Vasari 10.El Greco 11.Gian Lorenzo Bernini 12.Christopher Wren 13.Robert Hooke 14.Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff 15.Thomas Telford 16.Karl Friedrich Schinkel 17.Charles Barry 18.Georges-Eugène Haussmann 19.Antoni Gaudí 20.Louis Sullivan 21.Frank Lloyd Wright 22.Walter Gropius 23.Ludwig Mies van der Rohe 24.Le Corbusier 25.Louis Kahn 26.I.M. Pei 27.Frank Gehry 28.Renzo Piano 29.Rem Koolhaas 30.Zaha Hadid 31.Santiago Calatrava

Some Composers i like (Chronological Order)

 * those is bold are my favorites, those who are not i enjoy some of their works only.


 * 1) Josquin des Prez
 * 2) William Byrd
 * 3) Claudio Monteverdi
 * 4) Jean-Baptiste Lully
 * 5) Johann Pachelbel
 * 6) Antonio Vivaldi
 * 7) Georg Philipp Telemann
 * 8) Jean-Philippe Rameau
 * 9) Johann Sebastian Bach
 * 10) Domenico Scarlatti
 * 11) George Frideric Handel
 * 12) Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
 * 13) Joseph Haydn
 * 14) William Herschel
 * 15) Antonio Salieri
 * 16) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 * 17) Ludwig van Beethoven
 * 18) Niccolò Paganini
 * 19) Gioachino Rossini
 * 20) Franz Schubert
 * 21) Gaetano Donizetti
 * 22) Vincenzo Bellini
 * 23) Hector Berlioz
 * 24) Johann Strauss I
 * 25) Felix Mendelssohn
 * 26) Frédéric Chopin
 * 27) Robert Schumann
 * 28) Franz Liszt
 * 29) Sigismond Thalberg
 * 30) Richard Wagner
 * 31) Giuseppe Verdi
 * 32) Jacques Offenbach
 * 33) Anton Bruckner
 * 34) Johann Strauss II
 * 35) Johannes Brahms
 * 36) Camille Saint-Saëns
 * 37) Georges Bizet
 * 38) Modest Mussorgsky
 * 39) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
 * 40) Antonín Dvořák
 * 41) Arthur Sullivan
 * 42) Edvard Grieg
 * 43) Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
 * 44) Gabriel Fauré
 * 45) Edward Elgar
 * 46) Giacomo Puccini
 * 47) Eugène Ysaÿe
 * 48) Gustav Mahler
 * 49) Claude Debussy
 * 50) Richard Strauss
 * 51) Carl Nielsen
 * 52) Jean Sibelius
 * 53) Ralph Vaughan Williams
 * 54) Sergei Rachmaninoff
 * 55) Arnold Schoenberg
 * 56) Gustav Holst
 * 57) Maurice Ravel
 * 58) Igor Stravinsky
 * 59) Béla Bartók
 * 60) Sergei Prokofiev
 * 61) Dmitri Shostakovich
 * 62) Samuel Barber
 * 63) John Cage
 * 64) Olivier Messiaen
 * 65) Leonard Bernstein
 * 66) Pierre Boulez
 * 67) John Williams
 * 68) Philip Glass
 * 69) Andrew Lloyd Webber