The great thinkers and their contributions to the way many people think.
Oudheid
c. 1800-1600 BC
Zadig (Babylonia)
Hammurabi (Babylonia)
c.563-483 BC
Siddhartha Gautama (India)
c. 586 BC
Thales of Miletus (Greece)
6th BC
Lao Tzu (China)
c. 551-479 BC
Confucius (China)
c. 427-347 BC
Plato (Greece)
c. 384-322 BC
Aristotle (Greece)
c. 280-233 BC
Han Feizi (China)
c. 204-270
Plotinus (Egypt)
c. 354-430
Augustine of Hippo (Algeria)
Middeleeuwen
Al-Farabi, Al-Kindi, Al-Razi, Avicenna, Al-Ghazali, Maimonides, Ibn Miskawayh, Thomas Aquinas, Averroes, Ibn Khaldun.
Moderniteit
1469-1527
Niccolo Machiavelli (Italia)
1548-1617
Francisco Suarez (Spanje)
1561-1626
Francis Bacon (England)
1596-1650
René Descartes (Frankrijk)
1632-1677
Benedictus Spinoza (Portugal-Nederland)
1632-1704
John Locke (England)
1646-1716
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (Duitsland)
1685-1753
David Hume (Scotland)
1724-1804
Immanuel Kant (Duitsland)
1770-1831
George Hegel (Duitsland)
1788-1860
Arthur Schopenhauer (Pruisen)
1818-1883
Karl Marx (Duistland)
1844-1900
Friedrich Nietzsche (Duitsland)
1889-1951
Ludwig Wittegenstein (Oostenrijk)
1889-1976
Martin Heidegger (Duitsland)
1912-
Arne Naess (Noorwegen)
1928-
Noam Chomsky (VS)
1929-
Alasdair MacIntyre (Scotland)