Timeline of Western Philosophy

Came across the timeline of western philosophy in our NTU public folders recently. Put here for reference purposes. Will do some research on these remarkable thinkers and schools of thought when there's time.

 

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, Hippias, Prodicus
          Socrates and Followers
               Megarians: Euclides Stilpo
               Cynics: Antisthenes Diogenes of Sinope
               Cyreanics: Aristippus
          Plato and Followers
               Academy: Carneades
          Aristotle and Followers
               Peripatetics: Theophrastus
          The Hellenistic Philosophy
               Epicureanism: Epicurus, Lucretius Diogenes Laertius
               Stoicism: Cleanthes, Chrysippus, Epictetus
               Skepticism: Pyrrho, Timon, Aenesidemus
               Eclecticism
          Roman Philosophy: Cicero, Neo-Platonism, Plotinus


     MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY

          Early Middle Ages: Origen, Augustine
          High Middle Ages: Anselm, Lombard, Aquinas, Scotus
          Late Middle Ages: Eckhart, Ockham


     RENAISSANCE AND EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY

          Humanism: Pico, More, Erasmus
          Reformation: Luther, Calvin
          Scientific Revolution: Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Bacon, Newton
          Skeptics and Fideists: Montaigne, Gassendi, Bayle, Pascal


     MODERN PHILOSOPHY

          Continental Rationalism: Descartes Spinoza, Malebranche, Leibniz
          British Empiricism: John Locke, George Berkeley, David Hume
          Deism: English Deism, French Deism, Herbert of Cherbury, Bolingbroke, Pain
          French Enlightenment: Encyclopedists, Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot, Helvetius
          Natural Theology: Paley
          Modern Political Philosophy: Machiavelli, Hobbes, Pufendorf, Mandeville, Rousseau,
          Beccaria, Wollstonecraft, Burke, Godwin
          Modern Moral Philosophy: Clarke, Cudworth, Cumberland, Shaftesbury, Butler,
          Hutcheson, Price, Bentham,
          Scottish Common Sense: Kames, Reid, Beattie, Oswald, Stewart, Brown, Abercombie
          Kant


     19TH CENTURY PHILOSOPHY

          German Idealism: Hegel, Jacobi, Schopenhauer, Von Hartmann, J.G. Fichte, I.H. Fichte,
          Lotze
          English Idealism: Hamilton, Caird, Sterling, Hodgson, Ferrier, Stephen, Bradley
          American Idealism: St. Louis Hegelians
          Evolutionists: Huxley
          Late European: Nietzsche, Marx, Kierkegaard, J.S. Mill


     20TH CENTURY PHILOSOPHY

          Early American Philosophy: Peirce, James, Dewey
          Early Analytic Philosophy: Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, Moore, Reichenbach, Carnap,
          Hempel, Logical Positivism, Berlin Circle, Vienna Circle
          Russian Philosophy: Bakhtin, Solovyov, Shpet
          Continental Philosophy, Phenomenology, Existentialism: Husserl, Freud, Heidegger,
          Sartre, Camus
          Recent Moral and Political Philosophy: Ross, Toulmin, K. Baier, Rawls, Nozick
          Recent Metaphysics and Epistemology: Quine, Ryle, Kripke, Putnam, Davidson