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Philosophy
The discipline that refuses to take any question as settled.
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Pre-Socratic Philosophy
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Pythagoras Simulacrum
Number · Harmony · Proof · The Theorem · All Is Number
6th century BC
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Heraclitus of Ephesus Simulacrum
Flux · Fire · Logos · The Unity of Opposites · Fragments
6th–5th century BC
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Parmenides of Elea Simulacrum
Being · The Way of Truth · The Way of Seeming · Monism
6th–5th century BC
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Democritus of Abdera Simulacrum
Atoms & Void · Materialism · Ethics · The Laughing Philosopher
5th–4th century BC
The Athenian School
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Socrates (Composite) Simulacrum
The Examined Life · Elenchus · Aporia · Daimonion · The Socratic Problem
5th century BC
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Plato (Socratic) Simulacrum
The Apology · Euthyphro · Crito · Early Dialogues · Socratic Method
5th–4th century BC
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Plato (Republic) Simulacrum
The Republic · Justice · The Cave · The Philosopher-King · The Tripartite Soul
5th–4th century BC
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Plato (Eros & the Soul) Simulacrum
Symposium · Phaedo · Phaedrus · Love · Immortality · Beauty
5th–4th century BC
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Plato (Late) Simulacrum
Timaeus · Parmenides · Sophist · Laws · Cosmology · Self-Critique
5th–4th century BC
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Aristotle (Logic & Metaphysics) Simulacrum
Categories · Analytics · Syllogism · Being qua Being · Substance
4th century BC
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Aristotle (Ethics & Politics) Simulacrum
Nicomachean Ethics · Politics · Rhetoric · Poetics · The Good Life
4th century BC
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Aristotle (Nature & Soul) Simulacrum
Physics · De Anima · History of Animals · Generation · Parts
4th century BC
Hellenistic Philosophy
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Epicurus Simulacrum
Pleasure · Ataraxia · Friendship · Materialism
4th–3rd century BC
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Philodemus of Gadara Simulacrum
Epicureanism · Herculaneum Papyri · Frank Criticism · Poetry · Music
1st century BC
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Epictetus Simulacrum
Stoicism · The Enchiridion · Discourses · What Is Up to Us
1st–2nd century AD
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Marcus Aurelius Simulacrum
Meditations · Stoic Practice · Imperial Philosophy · Private Thought
2nd century AD
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Sextus Empiricus Simulacrum
Pyrrhonian Scepticism · Outlines · Suspension of Judgement · Equipollence
2nd–3rd century AD
Jewish-Hellenistic Philosophy
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Philo of Alexandria (Allegorist) Simulacrum
Allegorical Commentary · Genesis · Logos · Platonic Moses
1st century BC – 1st century AD
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Philo of Alexandria (Expositor) Simulacrum
Exposition of the Law · Moses · Decalogue · Contemplative Life
1st century BC – 1st century AD
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Philo of Alexandria (Witness) Simulacrum
Embassy to Gaius · Against Flaccus · The Pogrom · Political Testimony
1st century BC – 1st century AD
Neoplatonism
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Plotinus Simulacrum
Enneads · The One · Emanation · Return · Neoplatonism
3rd century AD
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Hypatia of Alexandria Simulacrum
Mathematics · Astronomy · Neoplatonism · Commentary on Ptolemy and Diophantus · 415 CE
4th century
Islamic Philosophy
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Al-Fārābī Simulacrum
Aristotelian Philosophy · Al-Madīna al-Fāḍila · Music Theory · Logic · The Second Teacher
9th century
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Avicenna / Ibn Sīnā Simulacrum
Medicine · Qānūn · Aristotelian Philosophy · Kitāb al-Shifāʾ · Floating Man · Essence and Existence
10th–11th century
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Al-Ghazālī Simulacrum
Incoherence of the Philosophers · Islamic Theology · Revivification · Sufism · Scepticism
11th–12th century
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Averroes / Ibn Rushd Simulacrum
Aristotle Commentaries · Tahāfut al-Tahāfut · Islamic Law · Medicine · Andalusia
12th century
Early Modern Philosophy
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Baruch Spinoza Simulacrum
Ethics · Substance Monism · God or Nature · Geometric Method · Freedom
17th century
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau Simulacrum
Social Contract · Amour de Soi vs Amour Propre · Émile · Natural Education · Inequality
18th century
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George Berkeley Simulacrum
Immaterialism · Esse est percipi · Idealism
1685–1753
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Simulacrum
Monadology · Sufficient Reason · Pre-Established Harmony · Calculus
1646–1716
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Immanuel Kant Simulacrum
Ethics · Epistemology · Reason
18th–19th century
19th Century Philosophy
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Arthur Schopenhauer Simulacrum
The World as Will · Representation · Pessimism · Aesthetics
1788–1860
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Friedrich Nietzsche Simulacrum
Genealogy of Morals · Eternal Recurrence · Will to Power · Beyond Good and Evil
1844–1900
The Scottish Enlightenment
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Francis Hutcheson Simulacrum
Moral Sense · Benevolence · The Greatest Good · Aesthetic Perception
18th century
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Thomas Reid Simulacrum
Common Sense · Direct Realism · Against Hume · The Principles of Common Sense
18th century
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David Hume Simulacrum
Empiricism · Scepticism · The Is-Ought Gap · Passion · Custom
18th century
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Adam Smith Simulacrum
Moral Sentiments · Sympathy · The Impartial Spectator · Political Economy
18th century
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Alexander Gerard Simulacrum
Taste · Genius · Aesthetic Philosophy · The Creative Process
18th century
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James Beattie Simulacrum
Common Sense · Anti-Scepticism · Essay on Truth · Moral Aesthetics
18th century
Modern Jewish Thought
Converse with
Manuel Joël Simulacrum
Jewish Philosophy · Spinoza · Medieval Arabic-Jewish Philosophy · Homiletics
19th century
Converse with
Hermann Cohen Simulacrum
Neo-Kantianism · Marburg School · Religion of Reason · Ethics of Pure Will · Judaism and Idealism
19th–20th century
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Leo Baeck Simulacrum
Liberal Judaism · Essence of Judaism · Mystery and Commandment · Theresienstadt · Polarity Theology
19th–20th century
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Isaak Heinemann Simulacrum
Jewish Philosophy · Philo of Alexandria · Hellenistic Judaism · Midrash and Allegory
19th–20th century
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Martin Buber Simulacrum
Dialogue · I and Thou · Hasidism · Zionism · Hebrew University · Encounter
19th–20th century
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Franz Rosenzweig Simulacrum
Star of Redemption · New Thinking · Creation Revelation Redemption · Lehrhaus · Return to Judaism
19th–20th century
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Abraham Joshua Heschel Simulacrum
Divine Pathos · Prophetic Tradition · Man Is Not Alone · Depth Theology · Civil Rights
20th century
Buddhist Philosophy
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Nāgārjuna Simulacrum
Madhyamaka · Śūnyatā · Mūlamadhyamakakārikā · Prāsaṅga Method · Two Truths
2nd century
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Vasubandhu Simulacrum
Yogacara · Abhidharmakosha · Vijñaptimātratā · Mind-Only · Conversion
c. 4th–5th century CE
Contemporary Philosophy
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Ludwig Wittgenstein Simulacrum
Language · Logic · Forms of Life
19th–20th century
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Martin Heidegger Simulacrum
Being · Dasein · The Question Concerning Technology · Phenomenology
1889–1976
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Jean-Paul Sartre Simulacrum
Existentialism · Bad Faith · Being and Nothingness · Radical Freedom
1905–1980
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John Rawls Simulacrum
A Theory of Justice · The Original Position · The Veil of Ignorance
1921–2002
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Michel Foucault Simulacrum
Power · Knowledge · Discourse · Discipline · Genealogy
1926–1984
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Robert Nozick Simulacrum
Libertarian Philosophy · Rights · Minimal State
20th–21st century
Logic
Converse with
Aristotle Simulacrum
Syllogistic Logic · Rhetoric · Metaphysics
4th century BC
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Gottlob Frege Simulacrum
Predicate Logic · Foundations · Philosophy of Language
19th–20th century
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Alfred Tarski Simulacrum
Formal Semantics · Truth · Model Theory
20th century
Converse with
Saul Kripke Simulacrum
Modal Logic · Possible Worlds · Naming & Necessity
20th–21st century
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Sherlock Holmes Simulacrum
Deductive Reasoning · Detection · Method
Non-historical
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Dr. Watson Simulacrum
Logic · Deduction · General Troubleshooting
Non-historical
Scottish Rhetoric
Converse with
Lord Kames Simulacrum
Elements of Criticism · Aesthetic Theory · Law · Taste as Moral Faculty
18th century
Converse with
Hugh Blair Simulacrum
Lectures on Rhetoric · Belles Lettres · Style · Taste · The Sublime
18th century
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George Campbell Simulacrum
The Philosophy of Rhetoric · Evidence · Testimony · Persuasion
18th century