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Period: 600 BCE to 500 BCE
Pre-Socratic
Pre-Socratic philosophy is ancient Greek philosophy before Socrates and schools contemporary to Socrates that were not influenced by him.Their inquiries spanned the workings of the natural world as well as human society, ethics, and religion, seeking explanations based on natural principles rather than the actions of supernatural gods. They introduced to the West the notion of the world as a kosmos, an ordered arrangement that could be understood via rational inquiry. From 6 cent to 5 cent bc -
Period: 500 BCE to 322 BCE
Classical
The Socratic or Classical period of the Ancient era of philosophy denotes the Greek contemporaries and near contemporaries of the influential philosopher Socrates. Socrates developed a system of critical reasoning in order to work out how to live properly and to tell the difference between right and wrong. Aristotle, Sophits and Aristotle were famous philosophers from the period. -
Period: 322 BCE to 200 BCE
Hellenistic
Hellenistic philosophy is the period of Western philosophy and Middle Eastern philosophy that was developed in the Hellenistic period following Aristotle and ending with the beginning of Neoplatonism. It has famous philosophers as Epicurus, Zeno, Euclid and Archimedes. It has a lot of divisions like: -
Period: 200 BCE to 476
Christian
Christian philosophy is a development in philosophy that is characterised by coming from a Christian tradition. It famous philosophers were Plotinus, Augustine and Hippo. -
Period: 600 to 1400
Midlle Ages
Philosophy of the medieval period was closely connected to Christian thought, particularly theology, and the chief philosophers of the period were churchmen. Philosophers who strayed from this close relation were chided by their superiors. Greek philosophy ceased to be creative after Plotinus in the 3rd century ad. -
Period: 1500 to
The Renaissance
In philosophical terms, the renaissance represents a movement away from Christianity and medieval Scholasticism and towards Humanism, with an increasing focus on the temporal and personal over merely seeing this world as a gateway to the Christian afterlife. -
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Enlightment
The Two Fundamental Characteristics of the Philosophy of Enlightenment are: 1) faith in the European Reason and human rationality to reject the tradition and the pre-established institutions and thoughts; 2) Search for the practical, useful knowledge as the power to control nature. -
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Contemporary
Contemporary philosophy is the present period in the history of Western philosophy beginning at the early 20th century with the increasing professionalization of the discipline and the rise of analytic and continental philosophy.