TIMELINE OF PHILOSOPHY

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Greek Philosopher

Time: to 469 BC

Main concerns: How is change possible? What is everything made of?

Philosopher: Socrates

Time: 469-399 BC

Main concerns: How should one live?

Philosopher: Plato

Time: 427-347 BC

Main concerns: What is knowledge and how is it possible? What is the relationship between mathematical objects and everyday objects? Is the world as it appears to be?

Philosopher: Aristotle

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Time: 384-322 BC

Main concerns: Everything!

Philosophers: early Christians

Time: 100-500 AD

Main concerns: How does God want people to live? What is the nature of the divine order?

Philosophers: Medieval philosophers

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Time: 500-1200 AD

Main concerns: How can God and his properties be made logically comprehensible?

Philosophers: Thomas Aquinas and the Catholic doctors

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Time: 1250-1500

Main concerns: How can Aristotle’s philosophy be reconciled with Christian doctrine?

Philosophers: Early modern pre-Newtonians (Galileo, Descartes, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz)

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Time: 1530-1716

Main concerns: How can knowledge be built on new foundations that will guarantee truth? What is the relationship between reason and material causation?

Philosophers: Post-Newtonians (Berkeley, Smith, Hume, Kant)

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Time: 1716-1804

Main concerns: What is the relationship between the scientific (Newtonian) picture of the world and the common sense picture?

Philosophers: 19^th century moralists (Hegel, Mill, Marx, Nietzsche)

Time: 1800-1910

Main concerns: What is the place of humanity and its moral concerns in the wider intellectual landscape, and in the modern state?

Philosophers: Analytic philosophers (Russell, Wittgenstein, the logical positivists, Austin)

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Time: 1910-1960

Main concerns: Can all non-scientific problems be dissolved by examining logic and/or language?

Philosophers: Contemporary philosophers

Time: since 1960

Main concerns: What is the relationship between the scientific (post-Newtonian) picture of the world and the everyday (moral, social, religious) picture? What is social justice and how can it be increased in the contemporary state?