Possible Clues:

• Compiler in trousers: are you about to become intellectual?
• Philosopher from East eluding Japanese ruler at ground
• He said, "When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die"
• Playwright who refused an 8-/57-Down in 1964
• Philosopher finds Jura pleasanter after move
• In my own country I may have baffled rural peasant!