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Who were Stirner's contemporaries in philosophy?

  • Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle

  • David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and John Locke

  • Holden Caulfield, Jay Gatsby, and Humbert Humbert

  • Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach

Answer

Stirner's contemporaries in philosophy were Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach. Marx and Engels were German philosophers who developed the philosophy of communism. Feuerbach was a German philosopher who was critical of Christianity and argued that God is a human creation. Stirner was influenced by all three of these philosophers, but he developed his own unique philosophy that was critical of both communism and Christianity.
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