PHILOSOPHY HISTORY

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  • Period: 700 BCE to 550 BCE

    Pre-socratic philosophy

    The philosophers of this stage wondered about the origin of nature.
  • 600 BCE

    Thales

    Thales
    Thales said that water is the origin of all things that exist.
  • 550 BCE

    Parmenides

    Parmenides
    He defended the theory of being or not being.
  • Period: 550 BCE to 322 BCE

    Classical philosophy

    The philosophers of this stage wonder about human nature.
    Sophists: They consider themselves wise and teach other.
  • 500 BCE

    Heraclitus

    Heraclitus
    The rational explanation that Heraclitus argued was that fire is the origin of all things.
  • 460 BCE

    Zeno of Elea

    Zeno of Elea
  • 430 BCE

    Socrates

    Socrates
    He defended good theory. The need to know what is good.
  • 380 BCE

    Plato

    Plato
    He defended theory of ideas.
  • 350 BCE

    Aristotle

    Aristotle
    He defended knowledge theory.
  • Period: 322 BCE to 100 BCE

    Hellenistic philosophy

    Philosophy was divided in two tendencies: Moral philosophy and the investigation of the natural world.
    The official and unofficial promotion of supposed Greek ideals in the organization of personal life and civic accomplishment.
  • 300 BCE

    Epicurus

    Epicurus
  • 270 BCE

    Euclid

    Euclid
  • 240 BCE

    Archimedes

    Archimedes
  • Period: 100 BCE to 476

    Christian philosophy

    -There were several attempts to create a synthesis between philosophy and Christianity.
    Represents an entire worldview that is consistent with the bible throughout. It embraces the meaningful purposeful life, a life thatit shape the beliefs according to coherent reasonable, truthful worldview.
  • 250

    Platinus

    Platinus
  • 270

    Porphyry

    Porphyry
  • 310

    Democritus

    Democritus
    He defended atomic theory.
  • 400

    Augustine of Hippo

    Augustine of Hippo
  • Period: 500 to 1400

    Middle Age philosophy

    This stage is characterized by the development of theories to understand different doctrines such as the incarnation.
  • 1250

    St Thomas Aquinas

    St Thomas Aquinas
  • Period: 1400 to

    Modern Age Philosophy

    This stage defends that truth can be known from other sources that are not faith.
  • Period: 1400 to

    Renaissance philosophy

    The word "Renaissance" literally means "rebirth". Movement away Christianity and Medieval Scholasticism and towards Humanism. Age of reason.
  • Feb 15, 1564

    Galileo Galilei

    Galileo Galilei
    He was a philosopher whose inventive mind and stubborn nature ran him into trouble with the Inquisition. Heliocentric theory
  • 1580

    Bacon

    Bacon
  • Period: to

    Rationalism and Empiricism

    Rationalism thesis are :
    The intuction/deduction
    The innate knowledge thesis
    The innate concept thesis
    The indispensability of reason thesis
    The superity of reason thesis. Empiricism says that knowledge is based on experienceand that knowledgeis tentative and probabilistic subject to continued revision.

  • Descartes "The father of Modern Philosophy".

    Descartes "The father of Modern Philosophy".

  • Spinoza

    Spinoza

  • Locke

    Locke

  • Leibniz

    Leibniz
  • Period: to

    The Enlightenment

    The philosophers of this stage argued that human knowledge could combat ignorance, superstition and tyranny.

  • Hume

    Hume
  • Period: to

    Contemporary philosophy

    The human being wonders about his own existence

  • Hegel

    Hegel
    He defended the helegian theory.

  • Sartre

    Sartre
    He defended the existentialist philosophy