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1. St Thomas Aquinas Who made Christianity credible. 2. William Shakespeare Who thought human life through to the smallest detail. 3. Immanuel Kant Who made the world and morality intelligible. 4. Dr Samuel Johnson Who never lost sight of common sense. 5. Denis Diderot Whose imagination knew no bounds 6. G.W.F. Hegel Who gave the only coherent account of the political life unless… 7. Hobler …. Did. 8. T.S. Eliot Who taught us how to think about literature. 9. Ludwig Wittgenstein Who taught us how to think about everything else. 10. Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz If only he could have concentrated on one thing at a time, but even so! Back to Your Millennium Vote >> More on Edward de Bono's choices >>

Professor Roger Scruton
Professor Roger Scruton is one of the UK's best-known philosophers, contributing regular opinion pieces for national newspapers.
Educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, he has lectured in philosophy at Birbeck College, London and at Boston University in Massachusetts, USA. He has written several books including An Intelligent Person's Guide to Philosophy, A Dictionary of Political Thought and A Short History of Modern Philosophy.
He has also written a book called On Hunting, which supports fox hunting. It is a topic for which other newspaper writers criticise him.

Professor Scruton is founder and director of the Claridge Press and has edited the Salisbury Review since 1982. He enjoys music, literature and architecture.