A new history of western philosophy
A new history of Western philosophy! That's a monumental task. Here's a possible outline for such a project:
Ancient Greece (c. 500 BCE - 300 CE)
- Pre-Socratic Philosophers:
- Thales of Miletus (c. 624 - 546 BCE)
- Anaximander (c. 610 - 546 BCE)
- Heraclitus (c. 535 - 475 BCE)
- Parmenides (c. 515 - 450 BCE)
- Empedocles (c. 490 - 430 BCE)
- Socratic and Platonic Philosophy:
- Socrates (c. 470 - 399 BCE)
- Plato (c. 428 - 348 BCE)
- Aristotle (c. 384 - 322 BCE)
- Hellenistic Philosophy:
- Epicureanism (Epicurus, c. 341 - 270 BCE)
- Stoicism (Zeno of Citium, c. 334 - 262 BCE)
- Skepticism (Pyrrho, c. 360 - 270 BCE)
Medieval Philosophy (c. 300 - 1500 CE)
- Early Christian Philosophy:
- St. Augustine of Hippo (354 - 430 CE)
- St. Thomas Aquinas (1225 - 1274 CE)
- Scholasticism:
- Peter Abelard (1079 - 1142 CE)
- William of Ockham (1285 - 1349 CE)
- Mysticism and Heresy:
- Meister Eckhart (c. 1260 - 1327 CE)
- John Wycliffe (c. 1320 - 1384 CE)
Renaissance and Enlightenment (c. 1500 - 1800 CE)
- Renaissance Humanism:
- Petrarch (1304 - 1374 CE)
- Erasmus (1466 - 1536 CE)
- Rationalism:
- René Descartes (1596 - 1650 CE)
- Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677 CE)
- Empiricism:
- Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626 CE)
- John Locke (1632 - 1704 CE)
- Enlightenment Thinkers:
- Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804 CE)
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778 CE)
Modern and Contemporary Philosophy (c. 1800 - present)
- German Idealism:
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770 - 1831 CE)
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900 CE)
- Existentialism:
- Søren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855 CE)
- Martin Heidegger (1889 - 1976 CE)
- Analytic Philosophy:
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970 CE)
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951 CE)
- Continental Philosophy:
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980 CE)
- Simone de Beauvoir (1908 - 1986 CE)
- Jacques Derrida (1930 - 2004 CE)
This is just a rough outline, and there are many other philosophers and movements that could be included. A new history of Western philosophy would require a deep understanding of the complex and often interconnected ideas and debates that have shaped the development of Western thought.