A Brief History on Western Philosophy
This is a short summary of western philosophy,
which originated in 6BC. It can be divided into three periods of great change:
Ancient Grecian philosophy, Rise of Christianity, and finally, the domination
of science
Ancient Philosophy Pre-Socratic Era · The Milesian School · Pythagorus (532 BC) · Heraclitys (500 BC) · Parmendes (500-450BC) · Empedocles (440BC) · Anaxogorus (500-432BC) · Atomists (440BC) Socratic Era · Socrates (400BC) · Plato (429-347BC) · Aristotle (350BC) Stoic Era · Zeno of Citium (322-262 BC) · Cleanthes (232BC) · Chrysippus (206BC) · Stoicism Christian Era · Marcus Aureliua (150AD) · St Augustine (400AD) |
Middle Ages
11-14th Century · Aincenna (1000AD) · Peter Abelard (1079-1142) · St Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) Modern Times 17th Century · Francis Bacon (1561-1626) · Rene Descartes (1596-1650) · Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) · John Locke (1632-1704) · Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) 18th Century · George Berkeley (1685-1753) · David Hume (1711-1776) · Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) · Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815) 19th Century · Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) · James Braid (1795-1860) · Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) · Max Stirner (1806-1856) · Karl Marx (1818-1883) · Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) 20th Century · Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) · Karl Popper (1902-1994) · Jean Paul Sartre (1905-1980) · Identity Theory of the Mind (1950s-1960s) · Computation Theory of the Mind (1961- ) · Neural Network Model of the Mind (1940’s- ) |
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