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)

  1. 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)
  2. Socratic and Platonic Philosophy:
    • Socrates (c. 470 - 399 BCE)
    • Plato (c. 428 - 348 BCE)
    • Aristotle (c. 384 - 322 BCE)
  3. 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)

  1. Early Christian Philosophy:
    • St. Augustine of Hippo (354 - 430 CE)
    • St. Thomas Aquinas (1225 - 1274 CE)
  2. Scholasticism:
    • Peter Abelard (1079 - 1142 CE)
    • William of Ockham (1285 - 1349 CE)
  3. Mysticism and Heresy:
    • Meister Eckhart (c. 1260 - 1327 CE)
    • John Wycliffe (c. 1320 - 1384 CE)

Renaissance and Enlightenment (c. 1500 - 1800 CE)

  1. Renaissance Humanism:
    • Petrarch (1304 - 1374 CE)
    • Erasmus (1466 - 1536 CE)
  2. Rationalism:
    • René Descartes (1596 - 1650 CE)
    • Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677 CE)
  3. Empiricism:
    • Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626 CE)
    • John Locke (1632 - 1704 CE)
  4. Enlightenment Thinkers:
    • Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804 CE)
    • Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778 CE)

Modern and Contemporary Philosophy (c. 1800 - present)

  1. German Idealism:
    • Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770 - 1831 CE)
    • Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900 CE)
  2. Existentialism:
    • Søren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855 CE)
    • Martin Heidegger (1889 - 1976 CE)
  3. Analytic Philosophy:
    • Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970 CE)
    • Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951 CE)
  4. 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.