| DIOGENES | Greek Cynic philosopher born in Sinope who advocated self-sufficiency |
| EPICURUS | Greek philosopher born in 341 BC who authored treatise On Nature (8) |
| XENOPHON | Greek military leader, historian and philosopher born in 431BC (8) |
| PLOTINUS | Roman philosopher, born in Egypt c. 205 AD, regarded as the founder of Neoplatonism (8) |
| CHWISTEK | Leon _, Polish painter and philosopher born in 1884 (8) |
| MENIPPOS | Ancient Greek Cynic, called by Lucian, "the greatest snarler and snapper of all the old dogs" (8) |
| AUTONOMY | Independence, self-sufficiency (8) |
| GOODLIFE | Richard Briers' self-sufficiency comedy, The ... ... (4,4) |
| MARSHALL | Building after war - who advocated that? |
| LOCKE | English philosopher born in Wrington, Somerset in 1632 (5) |
| DIDEROT | Denis, French philosopher born in 1713 who served as chief editor of the Encyclopedie (7) |
| KARLPOPPER | Philosopher born in Vienna in 1902 last to talk with unusually proper pal (4,6) |
| BARUCH | ****** Spinoza, philosopher born in Amsterdam in 1632 (6) |
| HUME | Enlightenment philosopher born in Edinburgh in 1711 |
| NACHMANIDES | Medieval Jewish scholar and philosopher born in Girona in 1194 (11) |
| BRONOWSKI | Jacob ___, mathematician and philosopher born in Poland in 1908 (9) |
| RAND | Ayn ___, Russian-born writer and philosopher born in 1905 (4) |
| CARLYLE | Thomas ___, Scottish philosopher born in 1795 who founded the London Library (7) |
| JEANPAULSARTRE | Existentialist philosopher born in Paris in 1905 (4-4,6) |
| CYNIC | Member of a school of ancient Greek philosophers associated with Antisthenes and Diogenes of Sinope |
