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Alan Watts or Alan Wilson Watts was a British philosopher, writer, and speaker who popularized and interpreted Eastern Philosophy for the Western audience. He attended the Seabury-Western Theological Seminary and received his master's degree in theology. He became very popular in San Francisco Bay Area as a volunteer programmer at KPFA, a Pacifica Radio station in Berkeley. Having written more than 25 books on important topics related to Eastern and Western religion, his famous books include 'The Way of Zen' (1957), 'Psychotherapy East and West '(1961), 'The New Alchemy' (1958) and 'The Joyous Cosmology' (1962). He also studied Chinese and was known for his Zen Buddhism. His reading and discussions delved into 'Vedanta'. He was also interested in cybernetics, semantics, process philosophy, natural history, and the anthropology of sexuality.

Arthur Schopenhauer was an extremely talented German philosopher, best known for his pessimism and clarity of philosophical works. He completed and published his doctoral dissertation "On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason," when he was 25 years of age. The dissertation analyzed the four individual manifestations of reason in the phenomenal world. The exceptionally influential work of Schopenhauer was "The World as Will and Representation," in which he explained that the world is mainly what we see in ourselves as our wish. The metaphysical examination of desire, his viewpoints on human motivation and will, and also his "aphoristic" writing technique showered great influence on numerous popular thinkers such as Friedrich Nietzsche, Richard Wagner, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Erwin Schrödinger, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Otto Rank, Carl Gustav Jung, Leo Tolstoy, and Jorge Luis Borges.

Aristotle was a Greek philosopher, better known as the teacher of Alexander the Great. He was the student of Plato and was considered to be an important figure in Western Philosophy. Famous for his writings on physics,...