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I 100 MEMBRI DEL PANTHEON DEL PENSIERO LIBERALE 1. Pericle 2 I 100 MEMBRI DEL PANTHEON DEL PENSIERO LIBERALE 1. Pericle 2. Protagora 3. Platone 4. Aristotile 5. Marco Tullio Cicerone, Marcus Tullius Cicero 6. Marco Aurelio, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus 7. Thomas More 8. Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St. Alban 9. Galileo Galilei 10. Tommaso Campanella, al secolo Giovan Domenico Campanella, pseudonimo Squilla 11. Antonio Serra 12. Huig Van Groot, italianizzato Ugo Grozio 13. Thomas Hobbe of Malmesbury 14. René Descartes, italianizzato Renato Cartesio 15. John Locke 16. Baruch Spinoza 17. Isaac Newton 18. Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz 19. Bernard de Mandeville 20. Richard Cantillon 21. Thomas Jefferson 22. Jeremy Bentham 23· Charle~-Louis de Secondat, Barone de La Brède e de Montesquieu, 24· David Hume 25· Jean-Jacques Rousseau 26. Denis Diderot 27. Antonio Genovesi 28. Jean Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert 29· Adam Smith 30. Immanuel Kant 31. Ferdinando Galiani 32. Pietro Verri, dei Conti Verri 33· Edmund Burke 34· Cesare Bonesana-Beccaria, marchese di Gualdrasco e di Villareggio 35· John Jay 36. James Madison 37. Giovanni Maria Angioy 38. Gaetano Filangieri senior, dei Principi di Arianello 39· Alexander Hamilton 40. Thomas Robert Malthus 41. Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Carl Ferdinand Freiherr von Humboldt 42. Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque 43. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 44. David Ricardo 45. François Pierre Guillaume Guizot 46. Antonio Francesco Davide Ambrogio Rosmini Serbati 47. Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay 48. Giuseppe Mazzini 49. Alexis Henri Charles de Clérei de Tocqueville 50. John Stuart Mill 51. Abraham Lincoln 52. William Ewart Gladstone 53. Camillo Benso, Conte di Cavour, di Cellarengo e di Isolabella 54. John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton 55. Cari Menger 56. Alfred Marshall 57. Giovanni Giolitti 58. Vilfredo Federico Damaso Pareto 59. Giustino Fortunato 60. Benedetto Croce 61. Irving Fisher 62. Francesco Saverio Vincenzo de Paola Nitti 63· Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, detto il Mahatma 64. Gaetano Salvemini 65. Luigi Einaudi 66. Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill 67- Marco Fanno 68. William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge, 69. Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises 70. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 71. Giovanni Amendola 72. Joseph Alois Schumpeter 73- José Ortega y Gasset 74· John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes of Tilton 75· Guido De Ruggiero 76. Piero Calamandrei 77. Walter Eucken 78. Arturo Carlo Jemolo 79· Eugene "Gene" Robert Black jr. 80. Maz Ascoli 81. Lionel Charles Robbins, 1st Baron Robbins 82. Friedrich August Hayek 83. Wilhelm Röpke, 84. Carlo Rosselli 85. Piero Gobetti 86. Karl Raimund Popper 87. Ugo La Malfa 88. John Richard Hicks 89. Guido Calogero 90. Isaiah Berlin 91. Norberto Bobbio 92. George Joseph Stigler 93. Paolo Baffi 94. Milton Friedman 95. Guido Carli 96. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela 97. James McGill Buchanan jr. 98. John Bordley Rawls 99. Ralf Gustav Dahrendorf, 1st Baron Dahrendorf. 100. Robert Nozick .
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