Soubriquet in a sentence as a noun

If the soubriquet "father of modern philosophy" doesn't imply independent thinking, I don't know what else would.

Soubriquet definitions

noun

a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name); "Joe's mother would not use his nickname and always called him Joseph"; "Henry's nickname was Slim"

See also: nickname moniker cognomen sobriquet byname