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Survival of the Fittest Philosophers

The organization of this section is in fun. If you take offense at taking apart religious doctrine for analysis, ask yourself how perfectly you follow their rules. I do respect others’ beliefs and their role in history to get us where we are today, but in light of new knowledge, some ideas have certainly become obsolete and dangerous. This is a great way to roughly point out which ones. It's also a great way to talk about the major philosophical beliefs in history. This section is certainly filled with gross oversimplifications of many arguments, but that's ok because a) this is a website for the general public and not a two-million-word academic dissertation on all philosophers in history, and b) this is surely filled with gross oversimplifications of my ideas as well. This gets the conversation going though and sticks to the rigorous MECE (mutually exclusive, collectively exhaustive) frameworks I want to build. Information on the philosophers and their beliefs is largely taken from Wikipedia where further sources are cited properly.

Ancient Philosophy (Pre 450 CE)
  • Moses and the Ten Commandments (14th-12th, 7th, or 6th century BCE are the best guesses for their origin)
  • Upanishads (12th century BCE is the best guess for the first Upanishads)
  • Lao Tzu and the Tao Te Ching (~600 BCE)
  • Guatama Buddha (563-483 BCE)
  • Confucius (551-479 BCE)
  • Pre-Socratic Western Philosophy (600-440 BCE)
  • Socrates (469-400 BCE)
  • Plato (428-348 BCE)
  • Aristotle (384-322 BCE)
  • Epicureanism (3rd Century BCE)
  • Stoicism (3rd Century BCE)
  • Skepticism (3rd Century BCE)
  • Jesus of Nazareth (7-2 BCE - 30-36 CE)

Medieval Philosophy (450-1600 CE)
  • Augustine of Hippo (354-430 CE)
  • Muhammad (570-632 CE)
  • Avicenna (980-1037 CE)
  • Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109 CE)
  • Averroes (1126-1198 CE)
  • Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274 CE)
  • Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536 CE)
  • Martin Luther (1483-1546 CE)
  • Francis Bacon (1561-1626 CE)
  • Galileo Galilei (1564-1642 CE)

Modern Philosophy (1600-1920 CE)
  • Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679 CE)
  • Rene Descartes (1596-1650 CE)
  • Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677 CE)
  • John Locke (1632-1704 CE)
  • Isaac Newton (1642-1727 CE)
  • Gottfried Leibniz (1646-1716 CE)
  • George Berkeley (1685-1753 CE)
  • Charles-Louis de Secondat baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755 CE)
  • Voltaire (1694-1778 CE)
  • David Hume (1711-1776 CE)
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778 CE)
  • Adam Smith (1723-1790 CE)
  • Immanuel Kant (1724-1804 CE)
  • Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
  • Georg Hegel (1770-1831 CE)
  • Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860 CE)
  • Auguste Comte (1798-1857 CE)
  • John Stuart Mill (1806-1873 CE)
  • Charles Darwin (1809-1882 CE)
  • Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855 CE)
  • Karl Marx (1818-1883)
  • Herbert Spencer (1820-1903 CE)
  • Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900 CE)
  • Max Weber (1864-1920 CE)

Contemporary Philosophy (Post 1920 CE)
  • Bertrand Russell (1872-1970 CE)
  • Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951 CE)
  • Martin Heidegger (1889-1976 CE)
  • Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980 CE)
  • Ayn Rand (1905-1982 CE)
  • Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986 CE)
  • Willard Quine (1908-2000 CE)
  • Alfred Ayer (1910-1989 CE)
  • John Rawls (1921-2002 CE)
  • Michel Foucault (1926-1984 CE)
  • Noam Chomsky (1928- CE)
  • Jacques Derrida (1930-2004 CE)
  • Bernard-Henri Lévy (1948- CE)

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