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PEOPLE Edition: This timeline encapsulates the people discussed within “30 Philosophers: A New Look at Timeless Ideas.” The following is a relatively complete list of all the people discussed in the book.
30 Philosophers Timeline: People
Gilgamesh, circa 2700 BCE
King of Uruk
King Shuruppak
circa 2600 BCE
The Wise King
Gargi Vachaknavi
circa 800 BCE
Thales of Miletus (624 – 546 BCE)
Early or "First" Science
The Grandfather of Western Philosophy
Laozi
b. circa 604 BCE
By tradition, 604-517 BCE
Pythagoras (570-495 BCE)
Pythagoreanism
Father of Mathematics
Confucius
b. 551 BCE
551 to 479 BCE, aged 72
Gautama Buddha
b. circa 563
circa 563 to 486 BCE
Heraclitus
born circa 535 BCE
circa 535 to 475 BCE, likely aged about 60 years old
Socrates (469 – 399 BCE)
Socratic Questioning
Father of Western Ethics
Democritus (460 BCE – circa 370 BCE)
Atomist
The Laughing Philosopher
Plato
b. 428 BCE
428 to 347 BCE
Aristotle
b. 384 BCE
384 to 322 BCE
Pyrrho of Elis
b. 360 BCE
360 to 270 BCE
Epicurus
b. 341 BCE
341 to 270 BCE
Zeno of Citium (334-262 BCE)
Stoicism
Father of Stoicism
Philo of Alexandria
b. circa 20 BCE
circa 20 BCE to circa 55 CE
Seneca the Younger (4 BCE – 65 CE)
Stoic Tradition
Roman Stoic Statesman
Epictetus (50-135 CE)
circa 100 CE
78 Generations Ago
Marcus Aurelius
born 121
121 to 180 CE
Badarayana
circa 300 BCE to 200 CE
Augustine of Hippo
born 354
354 to 430 CE
Al-Farabi
born 872
872 to 950
Alhazen
born 965
965 to 1040
Bernard of Chartres (circa 1070 – 1130)
Neoplatonist
French Philosopher
Peter Abelard
born 1079
1079 to 1141
Guru Nanak
born 1469
1469 to 1539
Nicolas Copernicus
born 1473
Lived 1473 to 1543, aged 70.
Francis Bacon
born 1561
1561 to 1626
Galileo Galilei
born 1564
1564 to 1642
Rene Descartes
1596-1649
Roger Williams
born circa 1602
circa 1602 to Mar 1683
Baruch Spinoza
born 1632
1632-1677, aged 44
John Locke
born 1632
1632 to 1704
Voltaire
born 1694
1694-1778
David Hume
born 1711
1711-1776
Immanuel Kant
born 1724
1724-1804
Arthur Schopenhauer
b. 1788
1788 to 1860, aged 72
John Stuart Mill
born 1806
1806-1873
Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
British Naturalist
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard
b. 1813
1813 to 1855, aged 42
Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913)
British Naturalist and Explorer
Father of Biogeography
Friedrich Nietzsche
born 1844
1844-1900
Jean-Paul Sartre
born 1905
1905-1980
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