A PHILOSOPHICAL TIMELINE OF LIVES AND TEXTS
6TH CENTURY B.C.E.
- Thales (625-547?)
- Anaximander (610-545)
- Pythagoras (581-507)
5TH CENTURY B.C.E.
- Buddha (563-483)
- Xenophanes (560-478)
- Confucius (551-479)
- Anaximenes (545-?)
- Heraclitus (540-480)
- Lao-Tzu (?): Tao Te Ching
5TH CENTURY B.C.E.
- Parminedes (515-450)
- Anaxagoras (500-428)
- Empedocles (490-430)
- Protagoras (490-420)
- Zeno of Elea (490-430)
- Gorgias (483-376)
- Mo-tzu (470-391)
- Socrates (470-399)
4TH CENTURY B.C.E.
- Democratus (460-370)
- Hippocrates (460-377)
- Plato (428-348): Apology, Symposium, Republic
- Chuang-tzu (?)
- Aristotle (384-322): Physics, Metaphysics, Poetics, Politics, Nicomachean Ethics
3RD CENTURY
- Epicurus (341-270)
- Zeno (335-263)
3RD CENTURY B.C.E.
- Diogenes (?)
- Hsun-tzu (298-230)
1ST CENTURY B.C.E.
- Cicero (106-43)
- Lucretius (100-55): The Way of Nature
1ST CENTURY
- Jesus (6 B.C.E. - 30 CE.)
2ND CENTURY
2ND CENTURY
3RD CENTURY
4TH CENTURY
- St. Augustine (354-430): Confessions
7TH CENTURY
11TH CENTURY
- St. Anselm (1033-1109)
- Peter Abelard (1079-1144)
12TH CENTURY
- Moses Maimonides (1135-1204): Guide For The Perplexed
13TH CENTURY
- St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274): Summa Theologia, Summa Contra Gentiles
- Meister Eckart (1260-1327)
- Duns Scotus (1266-1308)
14TH CENTURY
- William of Ockham (1285-1349)
16TH CENTURY
- Erasmus (1466-1536): In Praise of Folly
- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527): The Prince
- Wang Yang-ming (1472-1529)
- Thomas More (1478-1535): Utopia
- John Calvin (1509-1564): Institutions of the Christian Religion
17TH CENTURY
- William Shaspeare (1564-1616): Hamlet
- Frances Bacon (1561-1626)
- Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679): Leviathan
- Rene Descartes (1596-1650): Meditations
- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662): Pensees
- Baruch Spinoza (1634-1677): Ethics
- John Locke (1632-1677): Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Two Treatise on Government
- Gottfried Leibniz (1646-1716): Monadology
18TH CENTURY
- Giambattista Vico (1668-1744)
- Bishop Georg Berkeley (1685-1753): Principles of Human Knowledge
- Montesquieu (1689-1755)
- Voltaire (1693-1778): Candide
- Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)
- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
- David Hume (1711-1776): An Enquiry Concerning the Human Understanding, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778): Discourse on Inequality, The Social Contract, Confessions, Reveries of a Solitary Walker
- Adam Smith (1723-1790): Wealth of Nations
- Immanuel Kant (1724-1804): Critique of Pure Reason, Critique of Practical Reason, Critique of Judgment
- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826): Declaration of Independence, Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedom
- Johann Herder (1744-1803): Storm and Drag
19TH CENTURY
- Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
- Georg Wilhelm Hegel (1770-1831): Phenomenology of Mind
- Jane Austin (1775-1817): Sense and Sensibility
- Arthur Shopenhuauer (1788 -1860): The World As Will and Representation
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
- John Stuart Mill (1806-1873): Utilitarianism, On Liberty, The Subjection of Women, On Representative Government
- Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855): Fear and Trembling
- Frederick Douglas (1817-1895)
- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862): Walden
- Karl Marx (1818-1883): Communist Manifesto, Das Capital
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881): Notes From Underground
- Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
- Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914): "The Fixation of Belief"
- William James (1842-1910): Pragmatism, Varieties of Religious Experience
- Frederick Nietzsche (1844-1900): Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, Geneology of Moral
- Gottlob Frege (1848-1925)
20TH CENTURY
- Sigmund Freud (1856-1939): Civilzation and Its Discontents
- Edmund Husserl (1859-1938): Ideas, Crisis of European Philosophy
- John Dewey (1859-1952): Democracy and Education, Experience and Nature, The Quest For Certainty, Liberalism and Social Action
- Max Weber (1864-1920): Protestant Ethic and the Rise of Capitalism
- Miquel de Unamuno (1864-1936)
- Benedtto Croce (1866-1952)
- W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963): The Souls of Black Folk
- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970): Principia Mathematica, Why I am Not a Christian
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951): Tractatus, On Certainty, Philosophical Investigations
- Martin Heidegger (1889-1976): Being and Time, Basic Writings
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980): Being and Nothingness, No Exit
- Simon de Beauvoir(1908-1986): The Second Sex
- Albert Camus (1913-1960): The Myth of Sisyphus, The Stranger
- Michel Foucault (1926-1984): Order of Things
A BRIEF LIST OF CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS AND TEXTS:
- John Rawls: A Theory of Justice
- W.V. Quine: From a Logical Point of View, Words and Things
- Hilary Putnam: Renewing Philosophy, Pragmatism
- Richard Rorty: Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, Contingency Irony Solidarity
- Cornel West: The American Evasion of Philosophy, Keeping Faith
- Jurgen Habermas: Knowledge and Human Interests, The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity
- Jacques Derrida: The Margins of Philosophy, The Gift of Death
- Huston Smith: The World's Religions, Beyond the Postmodern Mind
- Harold Bloom: The American Religion
- Michael Martin: Atheism: A Philosophical Justification
- Thomas Nagel: Mortal Questions, A View From Nowhere, Partiality and Equality
- Robert Nozick: Anarchy State Utopia, The Examined Life
- Martha Nussbaum: The Fragility of Goodness, Poetic Justice
- Charles Taylor: Multiculturalism and The Politics of Recognition, The Ethics of Authencity
- Ronald Dworkin: Taking Rights Seriously