Which of the following influential philosophers were born in Kerala in the eighth century?
Shankara
The question asks about an influential philosopher born in Kerala during the eighth century CE.
Adi Shankara (Shankaracharya) was born at Kaladi in present-day Kerala around the 8th century CE.
He is the founder of the Advaita Vedanta (non-dualism) school of Indian philosophy.
He established four mathas (monastic centres) at Sringeri, Dwarka, Puri and Badrinath to unify Hindu thought.
Ramanuja, the propounder of Vishishtadvaita, was born in Tamil Nadu in the 11th century, not Kerala.
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was a 15th-16th century Vaishnava saint from Bengal, and Namdev was a 13th-14th century saint from Maharashtra.
Hence the philosopher born in Kerala in the eighth century is Shankara.
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