Thinkers 400 BCE – present Global
Ethicists
What we owe each other, and why it is hard.
28 dated entries 10 on the year rail sparse for a year wall
The exhibit · 2026
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Year rail · 10 year-precision entries kept off the day grid See the corpus →
The corpus
What lands on a date
- 01-05 G. E. M. Anscombe · Died. Modern moral philosophy; intention. source
- 01-12 Emmanuel Levinas · Ethics as first philosophy; the face of the Other. source
- 02-03 Simone Weil · Gravity and Grace; attention and affliction. source
- 02-08 Iris Murdoch · Died. The Sovereignty of Good; attention. source
- 02-12 Immanuel Kant · Died. Critiques; the categorical imperative. source
- 02-15 Jeremy Bentham · Utilitarianism; the greatest happiness. source
- 02-21 John Rawls · A Theory of Justice; the veil of ignorance. source
- 02-22 Arthur Schopenhauer · The World as Will and Representation. source
- 03-18 G. E. M. Anscombe · Modern moral philosophy; intention. source
- 04-22 Immanuel Kant · Critiques; the categorical imperative. source
- 05-08 John Stuart Mill · Died. On Liberty; utilitarianism. source
- 05-20 John Stuart Mill · On Liberty; utilitarianism. source
- 06-06 Jeremy Bentham · Died. Utilitarianism; the greatest happiness. source
- 06-10 Bernard Williams · Died. Moral luck; ethics and the limits of philosophy. source
- 07-15 Iris Murdoch · The Sovereignty of Good; attention. source
- 08-24 Simone Weil · Died. Gravity and Grace; attention and affliction. source
- 08-25 Friedrich Nietzsche · Died. Will to power; critique of morality. source
- 09-13 Mary Midgley · Beast and Man; moral philosophy. source
- 09-21 Arthur Schopenhauer · Died. The World as Will and Representation. source
- 09-21 Bernard Williams · Moral luck; ethics and the limits of philosophy. source
- 10-03 Philippa Foot · Virtue ethics; natural goodness. source
- 10-03 Philippa Foot · Died. Virtue ethics; natural goodness. source
- 10-10 Mary Midgley · Died. Beast and Man; moral philosophy. source
- 10-14 Hannah Arendt · The Human Condition; the banality of evil. source
- 10-15 Friedrich Nietzsche · Will to power; critique of morality. source
- 11-24 John Rawls · Died. A Theory of Justice; the veil of ignorance. source
- 12-04 Hannah Arendt · Died. The Human Condition; the banality of evil. source
- 12-25 Emmanuel Levinas · Died. Ethics as first philosophy; the face of the Other. source
Honest dates
The year rail
Some lives are known by year, not by day. Those entries are kept on a rail — never placed on a fabricated date.
- Socrates -469
- Socrates -399
- Plato -428
- Plato -348
- Aristotle -384
- Aristotle -322
- Epicurus -341
- Epicurus -270
- Epictetus 50
- Epictetus 135