The Greatest Philosophers (Chronological)
Submitted by baker on Sun, 02/27/2005 - 13:32
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- Mahavira (599-527 BC)
- Lao-Tzu (570-490 BC)
- Siddhartha Gautama (563-483 BC)
- Confucius (551-479 BC)
- Sun Tzu (~500 BC)
- Socrates (470-399 BC)
- Plato (427-347 BC)
- Aristotle (383-321 BC)
- Mencius (372-289 BC)
- Hsün Tzu (310-237 BC)
- Cicero (106-43 BC)
- Virgil (70-19 BC)
- Senecca (~100 AD)
- Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD)
- Plotinus (203-270 AD)
- St. Augustine (354-430 AD)
- St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274 AD)
- John Duns Scotus (1266-1308 AD)
- Nicollo Machiavelli (1469-1527 AD)
- John Calvin (1509-1564 AD)
- Rene Descartes (1596-1650 AD)
- Francis Bacon (1562-1626 AD)
- Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679 AD)
- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662 AD)
- John Locke (1632-1704 AD)
- Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677 AD)
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716 AD)
- Voltaire (1694-1708 AD)
- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790 AD)
- David Hume (1711-1776 AD)
- Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778 AD)
- Denis Diderot (1713-1784 AD)
- Adam Smith (1723-1790 AD)
- Immanuel Kant (1724-1804 AD)
- Mendelsohn (1729-86 AD)
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814 AD)
- George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831 AD)
- Washington Irving (1783-1859 AD)
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860 AD)
- Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu (1789-1755 AD)
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882 AD)
- John Stuart Mill (1806-1873 AD)
- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862 AD)
- Karl Marx (1818-1883 AD)
- Samuel Butler (1835-1902 AD)
- William James (1842-1910 AD)
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900 AD)
- Sigmund Freud (1856-1939 AD)
- John Dewey (1859-1952 AD)
- James Allen (1864-1912 AD)
- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970 AD)
- Karl Jaspers (1883-1969 AD)
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951 AD)
- Martin Heidegger (1889-1976 AD)
- Erich Fromm (1900-1980 AD)
- Ayn Rand (1905-1982 AD)
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905- AD)
- Stephen Ambrose (1936-2002 AD)
Interesting list, but you have forgotten/ neglected some great philosophers like Baruch Spinoza, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Friedrich Nietzsche, Arthur Schopenhauer, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Sigmund Freud, Karl Jaspers and Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Now, I feel exhausted... :-)
Oh sorry, you already had Nietzsche.
Thanks for the additions. I'm also going to go back and put them all in timeline order.
well you forgot to add men like Erich Fromm , Mendeleev
Thanks! Erich Fromm is a great addition to the list. Mendeleev I have on my list of Greatest Scientific Minds.
You're a little light on the ancients
Mahavira (599-527 BC)
Siddhartha Gautama (563-483 BC)
Mencius (372-289 BC)
Hsün Tzu (310-237 BC)
thanks for the additions!
Karl Popper?
John Rawls!
You trying to bait me again?