Although Socrates exerted a profound influence on Greek and Roman thought, not every major philosopher of antiquity regarded him as a moral exemplar or a major thinker.
It's perhaps the only case of a major thinker saying that things are actually in some ways simpler than they seem, and being right.
Zoe Williams (G2, 23 September) claims that taxation has "a curious void where its academics should be", and that Richard Murphy is "by a mile, the major thinker".
Despite arguing itself into a cul-de-sac, "The Anatomy of Racial Inequality" is an incisive, erudite book by a major thinker.
Murphy was named by International Tax Review as the seventh most important person in tax in 2013, and in this area with a curious void where its academics should be, he is, by a mile, the major thinker.
The story that emerges is that of a major thinker caught in the act of self-definition, a man riveted by his own life and times, and a scholar with an obsessive interest in his particular subject.
One major thinker who has come up with a cohesive program is Professor Miguel Nussbaum of the School of Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile.
Mr. Condo seems to be one of those peculiar souls who regard Ginsberg, Burroughs and Kerouac not just as colorful characters or interesting writers but also as major thinkers.
We see Gassendism shaping the work of lesser figures such as Francis Glisson (who embraced a vis motrix) and Thomas Willis (who crafted a materialist theory of neural transmission based on Gassendi's view (Wallace 2003)) but also such major thinkers as Boyle, Locke, Newton, Hume, and Reid.
In philosophy, Mead was one of the major thinkers among the American Pragmatists.
