Tradition
Western
Philosophy in the line that begins with the ancient Greeks and continues through Roman, medieval Latin, and modern European and Anglophone thought.
Periods
- Ancient Greek and Romanc. 600 BCE – 529 CE
- Medieval529 – c. 1400 CE
- Early modernc. 1600 – c. 1800
Schools
- Platonismfrom c. 387 BCE
- Epicureanismfrom c. 306 BCE
- Stoicismfrom c. 300 BCE
- Neoplatonismc. 250 – c. 650 CE
- Scholasticism
- Rationalism
- Empiricism
Philosophers
- Thalesc. 624 – c. 546 BCE
- Heraclitusfl. 510–490 BCE
- Parmenidesfl. 500–450 BCE
- Socratesc. 470 – 399 BCE
- Platoc. 429 – 347 BCE
- Aristotle384–322 BCE
- Epicurus341–270 BCE
- Marcus Aurelius121–180 CE
- Plotinusc. 204 – 270 CE
- Augustine354–430 CE
- Thomas Aquinasc. 1225 – 1274
- William of Ockhamc. 1287 – 1347
- René Descartes1596–1650
- Baruch Spinoza1632–1677
- David Hume1711–1776
- Immanuel Kant1724–1804