| ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY | |||
| 650 B.C.E. | THE IONIANS
Thales (624-546) |
The Period of Naturalism | The Beginning of Western Philosophy in Ancient Greece |
| 600 B.C.E. | Heraclitus of Ephesus (540-460)
Pythagoras (570-?) |
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| 550 B.C.E. | THE ELEATIC SCHOOL
Xenophanes of Colophon |
The Golden Age of Greece (480-399)The Persian WarsThe Peloponnesian War | |
| 500 B.C.E. | THE PLURALISTS
Empedocles (490-430) |
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| 450 B.C.E. | THE ATOMISTS
Democritus (460-370) |
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| 400 B.C.E. | THE SOPHISTS
Protagoras |
The Metaphysical Period | |
| 350 B.C.E. | Socrates (470-399)Plato (428-347)Aristotle (384-322) | The Decline and Fall of Greek Freedom (399-322)The Hellenistic Dispersion (322-146) | |
| STOICISM Zeno (336-264)EPICUREANISM Epicurus (342-270)SKEPTICISM Pyrrho of Elis (365-275)ECLECTICISM Antiochus |
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| 250 B.C.E. | GREEK SCIENCE
Euclid (c. 300) |
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| 50 B.C.E. | THE JUDAIC- ALEXANDRIAN SCHOOLPhilo of Alexandria (30 BCE – 50 CE) |
The Religious Period | Greece and Macedonia Become a Province of Rome (146)The Roman Empire (146 BCE – 192 CE)Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (193-305)The Triumph of Christianity (306-325) |
| THE NEO- PYTHAGOREAN SCHOOLApollonius of Tiana |
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| 50 C.E.to900 C.E. | THE NEO-PLATONIC SCHOOLAmmonius Saccas of Alexandria (176-242) |
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| Plotinus (205-270) | |||
| St. Augustine (354-430) | |||
| John Scotus Erigena (815-877) |
The Period of Scholastic Philosophy | The Dark Ages (566-1095) | |
| 1000 C.E.to1399 C.E. | THE MYSTICS
St. Peter Damian |
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| THE DIALECTICIANS
St. Anselm (1033-1109)Peter Abelard (1079-1142)John of Salisbury (1110-1182) |
The Middle Ages | ||
| Albertus Magnus (1193-1280)Roger Bacon (1214-1294)St. Bonaventure (1221-1274)St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
John Duns Scotus (1265-1308) William of Ockham (?-1349) |
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| 1400 C.E.to1600 C.E. | Master Eckhart (1260-1327) | Beginning of Modern Humanism | The Renaissance (1304-1576)The Reformation (1517-1564) |
| HUMANISMNicholas of Cusa (1401-1464)Bernardio Telesio (1509-1588)Giorano Bruno (1548-1600)
Tommaso Campanella |
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| Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) |
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| MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY | ||||||
| 1600 C.E. to the Present Day | Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) | |||||
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| THE ENLIGHTENMENT
Baron de Montesquieu |
KANTIAN CRITICISM
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) |
IDEALISM
Johann Fichte (1762-1814) |
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| POSITIVISM
FRENCH August Comte (1798-1857) GERMAN Ludwig Fauerbach (1804-1872) |
UTILITARIANISM
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) |
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| Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) | CRITICAL IDEALISM
Wilhelm Windelband (1848-1915) |
GERMAN PSYCHOLOGISM
Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920) |
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| AMERICAN IDEALISM
Josiah Royce (1855-1916) |
THE NEW IDEALISM
Thomas Hill Green (1836-1882) |
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| PRAGMATICISM
Charles Sander Peirce |
EVOLUTIONISM
Charles Darwin (1809-1882) |
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| PRAGMATISMWilliam James (1842-1910) John Dewey (1859-1952) |
PSYCHOANALYSISSigmund Freud (1856-1939) | NEO-POSITIVISM
Moritz Schlick (1882-1936) |
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| EXISTENTIALISMSoren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) Karl Barth (1886-1968) Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) Karl Jaspers (1883-1969) Gabriel Marcel (1889-1973) Jean Paul Sartre (1906-1980) |
INTUITIONISM
Henri Bergson (1859-1941)PHENOMENOLOGY Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) |
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| NEO-REALISM
Franz Bretano (1838-1917) |
THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL
Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979)
CRITICAL RATIONALISM Karl Popper (1902-1994) |
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| PHILOSOPHICAL HERMENEUTICS
Hans-Georg NEO-PRAGMATISM Richard Rorty (1931- ) |
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| CULTURAL THEORY, STRUCTURALISM, POSTMODERNISM, & DECONSTRUCTIONISM |
OBJECTIVISM
Ayn Rand (1905-1982) |
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| Gyorgy Lukacs (1885-1971) Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) |
Claude Levi-Strauss (1908- ) Michel Foucault (1926-1984) Jacques Derrida (1930- ) |
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| THE REVIVAL OF CLASSICAL REALISMJacques Maritain (1882-1973) Mortimer Adler (1902-2001) John Wild (1902-1972) Jonathan Dolhenty (1938- ) |
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