Philosophy

Timeline of Western Philosophy

ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY
- The PreSocratics:
  - Ionian: Thales, Anaximander, Diogenes of Apollonia, Anaximenes, Heraclitus
  - Pythagoras
  - Eleatic: Xenophanes, Parmenides, Zeno
  - Pluralists: Empedocles, Anaxagoras
  - Atomists: Leucippus, Democritus
  - Sophists: Protagoras, Gorgias, Thrasymachus, Hippias, Prodicus
- Socrates and Followers
  - Megarians: Euclides, Stilpo
  - Cynics: Antisthenes, Diogenes of Sinope, Menippus, Demonax
  - Cyrenaics: Aristippus
- Plato and Followers
  - Academy: Plato, Arcesilaus, Carneades
- Aristotle and Followers
  - Aristotle (Overview), Aristotle (Motion), Aristotle (Metaphysics), Aristotle (Ethics), Aristotle (Politics), Aristotle (Poetics)
  - Peripatetics: Theophrastus
- Hellenistic Philosophy
  - Epicureanism: Epicurus, Lucretius
  - Stoicism: Stoicism (Overview), Cleanthes, Chrysippus, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius
  - Skepticism: Pyrrho, Timon, Arcesilaus, Carneades, Cicero, Aenesidemus, Sextus Empiricus
- Late Hellenistic: Eclecticism, Roman Philosophy, Diogenes Laertius, Polyhistor, Philo, Cicero, Marcus Aurelius, Galen Neo-Platonism, Plotinus
MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY
- Early Middle Ages: Origen, Pseudo-Dionysius, Augustine
- High Middle Ages: Anselm, Lombard, Aquinas,
- Late Middle Ages: Eckhart, Ockham
RENAISSANCE PHILOSOPHY:
- Humanism: Erasmus
- Reformation: Luther
- Scientific Revolution: Bacon, Galileo
- Neostoicism: Justus Lipsius
17TH AND 18TH CENTURY PHILOSOPHY
- Continental Rationalism: Descartes, Spinoza, Malebranche, Leibniz (Metaphysics)
- British Empiricism: Locke, Berkeley, Hume (Life), Hume (Metaphysics), Hume (Ethics), Hume (Religion), Hume (Essays)
- French: French Deism, Encyclopedists, Rousseau, Diderot, Helvetius
- German: Kant (Metaphysics), Kant (Aesthetics), Hamann
- British: Hobbes, English Deism, Herbert of Cherbury, Butler, Bolingbroke, Paley
- American: Paine
- Moral and Political Philosophy: Machiavelli, Pufendorf, Beccaria, Cudworth, Cumberland, Shaftesbury
19TH CENTURY PHILOSOPHY
- German: German Idealism, Hegel (Social and Political), Jacobi, Von Hartmann, J.G. Fichte, I.H. Fichte, Lotze
- British: Hamilton, Caird, Sterling, Hodgson, Ferrier, Stephen Huxley
- American: St. Louis Hegelians
- Moral and Political Philosophy: Bentham, Donoso Cortés, J.S. Mill
- Karl Marx , Marx's Theory of Commodity Fetishism, Manifesto of the Communist Party [1948](complete)
- Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer,
- Freud, Nietzsche,
20TH CENTURY AND CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY
- Pragmatism: Dewey, Mead
- Early Analytic Philosophy: Poincaré, Frege, Wittgenstein, Reichenbach, Carnap, Hempel, Logical Positivism, Berlin Circle, Vienna Circle
- Russian Philosophy: Bakhtin, Solovyov, Shpet
- Continental Philosophy: Husserl, Freud, Heidegger, Theodor Adorno , Blondel, Kojève, Merleau-Ponty , Jean-Paul Sartre
- Moral and Political Philosophy: Arendt
- Religious Philosophy: Bonhoeffer
- Metaphysics and Epistemology: Lonergan, Davidson
- Identity Theory
- Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault