CHAPTER 1: THE PERIODS AND MAIN INFLUENCES
In the following table, a philosopher, school or temperament - e.g. rationalism - is directly influenced by the ones above it.
PERIOD RATIONALIST EMPIRICIST
700 BC Pre Socratic Philosophy
600 BC Parmenides (philosopher of permanence) Democritus (atomism)
400 BC Socrates Plato Aristotle
300 BC Epicurus: Materialism Cynicism Skepticism (to 200 AD); Stoicism
Christ
300 AD
500 AD Neo-Platonism; St. Augustine, Boethius
800 AD Medieval Philosophy; Johannes Scotus Eriugena
1100 AD Scholasticism
1200 AD Aquinas; Duns Scotus
1400 AD William of Ockham; Renaissance Platonism
1600 AD Rationalism; Descartes; Spinoza Empiricism; Bacon; Hobbes; Locke
1700 AD Leibniz Berkeley; Hume
1800 AD Kant; Hegel J.S. Mill
Late 19th,
20th and 21st centuries Neo-Kantianism;Neo-Hegelianism; Marxism; Existentialism; Neo-Thomism; Post-modernism… Analytic and Linguistic Philosophy