Philosophy> ideas stick around because they are true or persuasive (sophistry)
Pre-Socratics
Thales and His Followers (625 -545 BC)
Pythagoras (535 BC flourished)
*Parmenides of Elea (510 BC born)
Hippocrates
Socratics
Socrates/ Plato (470-399 BC / 428-348 BC)
Aristotle (384-322 BC)
Neo-Platonists
Plotinus (240-270 AD)
Proclus (412-485 AD)
Patristic (150-449 AD)
Augustine (354-430 AD)
Scholastics (1100-1400)
Aquinas (1225-1274)
William of Ockham (1287-1347)
Modern Period
Machiavelli (1469-1527)
Montaigne (1533-1592)
Bacon (1561-1626)
Descartes (1596-1650)
Newton (1643-1727)
Milton (1608-1674)
Hume (1711-1776)
Locke (1632-1704)
Kant (1724-1804)
FRENCH REVOLUTION [1789-1799]
Statue of Our Lady in Notre Dame removed and statue of Liberty installed.
Hugo (1802-1885)
Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
Marx (1818-1883)
Darwin (1809-1882)
Post Modern
Fredrick Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Edith Stein (1891-1942)
20th Century
Francis Crick (1916-2004)
Peter Singer (1946-)
Richard Rorty (1931-2007)
Thomas Nagel (1937-)
François Mitterrand (1916-1996) (espoused a philosophy that is easy to discern)