Outline of Major Philosophers with Timeline Categories

Philosophy> ideas stick around because they are true or persuasive (sophistry)

Pre-Socratics

Thales and His Followers (625 -545 BC)

Pythagoras (535 BC flourished)

*Parmenides of Elea (510 BC born)

Hippocrates

 

Socratics

Socrates/ Plato (470-399 BC / 428-348 BC)

Aristotle (384-322 BC)

Neo-Platonists

Plotinus (240-270 AD)

Proclus (412-485 AD)

 

Patristic (150-449 AD)

Augustine (354-430 AD)

 

Scholastics (1100-1400)

Aquinas (1225-1274)

William of Ockham (1287-1347)

 

Modern Period

Machiavelli (1469-1527)

Montaigne (1533-1592)

Bacon (1561-1626)

Descartes (1596-1650)

Newton (1643-1727)

Milton  (1608-1674)

Hume (1711-1776)

Locke (1632-1704)

Kant (1724-1804)

 

FRENCH REVOLUTION [1789-1799]

Statue of Our Lady in Notre Dame removed and statue of Liberty installed.

 

Hugo (1802-1885)

Kierkegaard (1813-1855)

Marx (1818-1883)

Darwin (1809-1882)

 

Post Modern

Fredrick Nietzsche (1844-1900)

Edith Stein (1891-1942)

 

20th Century

Francis Crick (1916-2004)

Peter Singer (1946-)

Richard Rorty (1931-2007)

Thomas Nagel (1937-)

François Mitterrand (1916-1996) (espoused a philosophy that is easy to discern)