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624 BCE
THALES OF MILETUS
Thales of Miletus was the first known Greek philosopher, the founder of the Milesian School of Natural Philosophy, and the teacher of Anaximander. Perhaps considered himself as the first subscriber to Materialist and Naturalism in trying to define the substance(s) of which all material objects were composed, which he identified as water. Also, he was a kind of philosopher that seeks rational answers to questions. -
610 BCE
ANAXIMANDER
Anaximander was called an early proponent of science that somehow considered to be the first true scientist which he conducted the earliest recorded scientific experiment. Aside from that, he was the founder of Astronomy and made some contributions too to other perspective areas like Cosmology, Physics, Geometry, Meteorology, Geography, as well as Metaphysics. -
585 BCE
ANAXIMENES
Anaximenes was the first Greek who distinguished clearly between planets and stars. In addition, he also used his own principles to account for various natural phenomena like thunder, lightning, rainbows, earthquakes, etc. -
570 BCE
PYTHAGORAS
Pythagoras was the founder of the influential philosophical and religious movement called Pythagoreanism. He was the first ever man that called himself a philosopher (a lover of wisdom) and has his own quote, "To love something does not mean to possess it, but to focus our life in it." -
428 BCE
PLATO
Plato became a hugely important Greek Philosopher and Mathematician from the Socratic or Classical Period. Somewhat called himself the best known, most widely studied, and the most influential philosopher of all time. Specifically, he was the one that contrast true knowledge from opinion, the immorality of the soul, imagining the afterlife, perception and reality, nature and custom, and the body and soul. -
384 BCE
ARISTOTLE
Aristotle was called a towering figure in Ancient Greek Philosophy due to his big contributions when it comes to Logic, Metaphysics, Mathematics, Physics, Biology, Botany, Ethics, Politics, Agriculture, Medicine, Dance, and Theatre. In spite all of that, his philosophy stresses more on Biology. Others, he has defined also the supreme good as an activity of the rational soul in accordance with virtue. -
354 BCE
AUGUSTINE
Augustine was an early North African Christian Theologian and Philosopher. His own writings influenced more in the development of Western Christianity and Western Philosophy. He was considered as part of the 4th century Philosopher (groundbreaking philosophy infused Christian doctrine with Neoplatonism). -
344 BCE
ZENO DE CITIUM
Zeno de Citium founded the Hellenistic Philosophy in the early 3rd century BC in Athens (school known as Stoicism). He mainly taught that the Universal Reason or Logos by himself was the greatest good in life and living in accordance with reason declared as the purpose of human life. -
341 BCE
EPICURUS
Epicurus was a Greek philosopher of the Hellenistic Period and the founder of ancient Greek philosophical school of Epicureanism that context a happy, tranquil life, characterized by the absence of pain and fear by its cultivation of friendship, freedom, and analyzed life. -
1225
THOMAS AQUINAS
Thomas Aquinas was an Italian philosopher and Theologian in the Medieval Period and the classical proponent of natural theology at the peak of Scholasticism in Europe. Secondly, the founder of the Thomistic school of Philosophy and Theology considering his principle of faith with philosophical principles of reason that ranked himself as the most influential thinkers of Medieval Scholasticism. -
IMMANUEL KANT
Immanuel Kant was one of the most influential philosophers in Western Philosophy. He has contributed to Metaphysics, Epistemology, Ethics, and Aesthetics . Also, he made the Kantian Ethics which points out Enlightenment Rationalism. -
JOHN RAWLS
John Rawls was an American Moral and Political Philosopher in the liberal tradition, the author of "A Theory of Justice" which was his own work of Political Philosophy and Ethics that attempts to solve the problem of distributive justice. -
JURGEN HABERMAS
Jurgen Habermas was a German Sociologist and Philosopher in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism. His own book entitled, "The Theory of Communicative Action" continues his own project of finding a way to ground "the social sciences in a theory of language", which had been set out in On the Logic of the Social Sciences in 1967.
