Major Western Philosophers

Pre-Socratic

624 BC - 546 BC

570 BC - 490 BC

570 BC - 475 BC

535 BC - 475 BC

515 BC - 450 BC

490 BC - 420 BC

490 BC - 430 BC

487 BC - 376 BC

460 BC - 370 BC

Socratic

470 BC - 399 BC

428 BC - 348 BC

412 BC - 323 BC

384 BCE - 322 BCE

Hellenistic

360 BC - 270 BC

341 BC - 270 BC

334 BC - 262 BC

20 BC - 50 AD

205 AD - 270 AD

Roman

106 BC - 43 BC

99 BC - 55 BC

55 ad - 135 ad

121 AD - 180 AD

354 - 430

480 - 524

Medieval

980 - 1037

1033 - 1109

1135 - 1204

1206 - 1280

1214 - 1294

1225 - 1274

Renaissance

1466 - 1536

1469 - 1527

1478 - 1535

1548 - 1600

1561 - 1626

Modern - Age of Reason

1588 - 1679

1596 - 1650

1623 - 1662

1632 - 1677

29 August 1632 - 28 October 1704

1638 - 1715

1646 - 1716

Modern - Age of Enlightenment

1685 - 1753

1694 - 1778

1711 - 1776

1712 - 1778

1723 - 1790

1724 - 1804

1729 - 1797

Modern

1749 - 1832

1770 - 1831

1775 - 1854

1788 - 1860

1798 - 1857

1806 - 1873

1816 - 1855

1818 - 1883

1839 - 1914

1844 - 1900

1859 - 1938

1872 - 1970

1873 - 1958

1889 - 1951

1889 - 1976

1905 - 1980

1922 - 2010

1926 - 1984