Frank N. Magill

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2. Thomas Merton

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3. Charles William Eliot

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7. Mortimer J. Adler

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8. Paul Johnson

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9. E. D. Hirsch Jr.

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11. Alfred North Whitehead

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12. William Rose Benét

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13. Jessie Carney Smith

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14. Harold Bloom

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15. Robert Audi

    Author of The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy

16. Richard Tarnas

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17. William L. Andrews

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18. T. Cowan

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19. I. F. Stone

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20. Brian Lanker

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