Chronological List of "Western" Philosophers
- Thales 585 bc
- Milesian.
- Anaximander 610-546+bc
- Milesian.
- Anaxagoras c500-432 bc
- Anaximenes before 494 bc
- Milesian.
- Pythagoras 532 bc
- Xenophanes late 6th C bc
- Heraclitus c 500 bc
- Everything changes.
- Parmenides c500-450 bc
- Leader of the Ileatic School
- Nothing changes.
- Empedocles c440 bc
- Leucippus c440 bc
- Democritus c420 bc
- Protagoras 500-432+bc
- Chief of the Sophists
- Socrates 470-399 bc
- Plato 428-348 bc
- Aristotle 384-322 bc
- Antishthenese
- Diogenese
- Cynic.
- Pyrrho -> 275 bc
- Sceptic
- Timon -> 235 bc
- Sceptic
- Arcesilaus -> 240 bc
- Sceptic
- Carneades c 180-110 bc
- Sceptic
- Clitomachus
- Sceptic
- Antiochus -> 69 bc
- Epicurus 342-271 bc
- Epicurean
- Zeno late 4th C bc
- Stoic.
- Marcus Aurelius 121-180 ad
- Stoic
- Plotinus 204-270 ad
- Neo-Platonist.
- Origen 185-254
- Saint Jerome 345-420
- Saint Ambrose 340
- Saint Augustine 354-430
- Pope Gregory the Great 540->
- Saint Benedict 480-543
- John the Scot c 800-877
- Saint Thomas Aquinas 1225-1274
- Roger Bacon 1214-1249
- Duns Scotus 1270-1308
- William of Occam 1290/1300-1349/50
- Saint Benaventuro 1221-1274
- Matthew of Aquasparta 1235-1302
- Machiavelli ->1521
- Moore ->1535
- Erasmus ->1536
- Copernicus ->1543
- Brahe 1546-1601
- Bacon 1561-1626
- Gallileo 1564-1642
- Kepler 1571-1630
- Hobbes 1588-1679
- Descartes 1596-1650
- Spinoza 1632-1677
- Locke 1632-1704
- Newton 1642-1727
- Leibniz 1646-1716
- Bayle 1647-1706
- Sceptic
- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle 1657-1757
- Berkeley 1685-1753
- Charles de Sécondat, Baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu 1689-1755
- M. de Voltaire (born François Marie Arouet) 1694-1778
- Philosophe
- Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis 1698-1759
- Proto-positivist?
- Julien Offray de La Mettrie 1709-1751
- Hume 1711-1776
- Positivist
- Rousseau 1712-1778
- Romantic
- Denis Diderot 1713-1784
- Philosophe, encyclopaedist
- D'Alembert 1717-1783
- Philosophe, mathematician, encyclopaedist, proto-positivist
- Kant 1724-1804
- Jeremy Bentham 1748-
- Utilitarian
- Hegel 1770-1831
- James Mill 1773-
- Schopenhaur 1788-1860
- John Stuart Mill 1806-1873
- Karl Marx 1818
- Nietzsche 1844-1900
- Bertrand Russell 1872-1965
- Instigator with Moore of "analytic" philosophy (later so named).
- G.E.Moore
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