Philosopher↕ | Era↕ | School↕ | Country↕ | Key Idea↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Socrates | 470–399 BC | Classical Greek | Greece | Socratic method & examined life |
Aristotle | 384–322 BC | Peripatetic | Greece | Logic, ethics & virtue |
Plato | 428–348 BC | Platonism | Greece | Theory of Forms & Republic |
Immanuel Kant | 1724–1804 | Critical Philosophy | Germany | Categorical imperative |
Friedrich Nietzsche | 1844–1900 | Existentialism | Germany | Will to power & Übermensch |
Confucius | 551–479 BC | Confucianism | China | Moral virtue & social harmony |
René Descartes | 1596–1650 | Rationalism | France | I think, therefore I am |
Simone de Beauvoir | 1908–1986 | Existential Feminism | France | The Second Sex |
Karl Marx | 1818–1883 | Marxism | Germany | Class struggle & capital |
Jean-Paul Sartre | 1905–1980 | Existentialism | France | Existence precedes essence |
Lao Tzu | 6th century BC | Taoism | China | The Tao & non-action |
John Locke | 1632–1704 | Empiricism | England | Tabula rasa & natural rights |
Michel Foucault | 1926–1984 | Post-structuralism | France | Power & knowledge structures |
David Hume | 1711–1776 | Empiricism | Scotland | Skepticism & causation |
Hannah Arendt | 1906–1975 | Political Philosophy | Germany/USA | Banality of evil |
Ibn Sina (Avicenna) | 980–1037 | Islamic Philosophy | Persia | Flying man & metaphysics |
Marcus Aurelius | 121–180 | Stoicism | Rome | Meditations & duty |
Albert Camus | 1913–1960 | Absurdism | France/Algeria | The absurd & revolt |
Noam Chomsky | 1928–present | Analytic | USA | Universal grammar & political dissent |
Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama) | 563–483 BC | Buddhism | Nepal/India | Four Noble Truths & Middle Way |
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