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Notable Philosophers and Thinkers Chronologically

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NameLifespanAlso Known As
Thalesc. 624-546 BC
Anaximanderc. 610-546 BC(Aniximander)
Pythagorasc. 580-500 BC
Siddhartha Gautamac. 563-483 BC(Buddha)
Kong Qiuc. 551-479 BC(Confucius)
Heraclitus of Ephesusc. 535-475 BC
Parmenides of Eleac. 510-440 BC
Anaxagorasc. 500-428 BC
Empedoclesc. 490-430 BC
Zeno of Eleac. 490-430 BC
Socratesc. 470-399 BC
Democritusc. 450-370 BC
Xenophonc. 427-355 BC
Platoc. 427-347 BC
Diogenes of Sinopec. 412-323 BC
Aristotle384-322 BC
Pyrrhoc. 360-270 BC
Epicurus341-270 BC
Zeno of Citiumc. 333-264 BC
Euclidc. 330-275 BC
Archimedesc. 287-212 BC
Philo20 BC-40
Seneca the Younger4 BC-65
Marcus Aurelius121-180
Nagarjunac. 150-250
Plotinus205-270
Augustine of Hippo354-430
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius480-524
Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmic. 780-850
Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Kindi801-873(Alkindus)
Abu Bakr Muhammad al-Razi865-925(Rhazes)
Abu Nasr Muhammad al-Farabi870-950(Farabi)
Abu Ali al-Husayn ibn Sina980-1037(Avicenna)
Anselm1033-1109
Abu Hamid Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Ghazali1058-1111(Algazel)
Peter Abelard1079-1142
Abu'l-Walid Muhammad ibn Rushd1126-1198(Averroes)
Maimonides1135-1204
Leonardo of Pisac. 1180-1250(Fibonacci)
Francis of Assisi1182-1226(Francesco)
Thomas Aquinas1221-1274(Tommaso)
John Duns Scotus1266-1308
William of Ockham1285-1347
Desiderius Erasmus1466-1536
Niccolò Machiavelli1469-1527(Nicholas)
Sir Thomas More1478-1535
Martin Luther1483-1546
Jean Chauvin1509-1564(John)
Sir Francis Bacon1561-1626
Thomas Hobbes1588-1679
René Descartes1596-1650
Blaise Pascal1623-1662
Christiaan Huygens1629-1695(Christian)
Baruch Spinoza1632-1677
John Locke1632-1704
Gottfried Leibniz1646-1716
George Berkeley1685-1753
Hakuin Ekaku1686-1769
François-Marie Arouet "Voltaire"1694-1778
Leonhard Euler1707-1783
David Hume1711-1776
Jean Jacques Rousseau1712-1778(John)
Denis Diderot1713-1784
Adam Smith1723-1790
Immanuel Kant1724-1804
Jeremy Bentham1748-1832
Pierre Simon Laplace1749-1827(Peter)
Johann Gottlieb Fichte1762-1814(John)
Georg Hegel1770-1831(George)
Carl Friedrich Gauss1777-1855
Arthur Schopenhauer1788-1860
Charles Babbage1791-1871
Auguste Comte1798-1857
John Stuart Mill1806-1873
Søren Kierkegaard1813-1855
Ada Lovelace1815-1852
Henry David Thoreau1817-1862
Karl Marx1818-1883
Friedrich Engels1820-1895(Frederick)
Charles Peirce1839-1914
William James1842-1910
Friedrich Nietzsche1844-1900(Frederick)
Gottlob Frege1848-1925
Henri Poincaré1854-1912(Henry)
Sigmund Freud1856-1939
Edmund Husserl1859-1938
Henri Bergson1859-1941(Henry)
John Dewey1859-1952
Alfred North Whitehead1861-1947
George Santayana1863-1952(Jorge)
Bertrand Russell1872-1970
George Edward Moore1873-1958
Carl Jung1875-1961
Ludwig Wittgenstein1889-1951
Martin Heidegger1889-1976
Sir Karl Popper1902-1994
John von Neumann1903-1957(János)
Joseph Campbell1904-1987
B. F. Skinner1904-1990(Burrhus)
Jean-Paul Sartre1905-1980(John)
Kurt Gödel1906-1978
Simone de Beauvoir1908-1986
Willard Van Orman Quine1908-2000
Alan Turing1912-1954
Albert Camus1913-1960
Noam Chomsky1928-

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