Philosophers

What lands on a date

• 01-03 Cicero · Stoic-influenced orator; On Duties. source
• 01-04 Henri Bergson · Died. Duration; élan vital. source
• 01-04 Albert Camus · Died. The absurd; The Stranger and The Plague. source
• 01-05 G. E. M. Anscombe · Died. Modern moral philosophy; intention. source
• 01-09 Simone de Beauvoir · The Second Sex; existential feminism. source
• 01-09 Wang Yangming · Died. Unity of knowledge and action. source
• 01-12 Swami Vivekananda · Vedanta in the modern world. source
• 01-12 Edmund Burke · Reflections on the Revolution in France. source
• 01-12 Emmanuel Levinas · Ethics as first philosophy; the face of the Other. source
• 01-14 George Berkeley · Died. Idealism; to be is to be perceived. source
• 01-15 Martin Luther King Jr. · Civil rights; the Beloved Community. source
• 01-18 Montesquieu · The Spirit of the Laws; separation of powers. source
• 01-18 Hakuin Ekaku · Died. Rinzai Zen revival; the koan. source
• 01-19 Dōgen · Zen master; Shōbōgenzō. source
• 01-19 Hakuin Ekaku · Rinzai Zen revival; the koan. source
• 01-21 Vladimir Lenin · Died. Imperialism and revolution. source
• 01-22 Francis Bacon · Empiricism and the scientific method. source
• 01-22 Antonio Gramsci · Cultural hegemony; the prison notebooks. source
• 01-22 Thich Nhat Hanh · Died. Engaged Buddhism; mindfulness. source
• 01-23 Robert Nozick · Died. Anarchy, State, and Utopia. source
• 01-30 Mahatma Gandhi · Died. Satyagraha; nonviolent resistance. source
• 02-02 Bertrand Russell · Died. Logic; Principia Mathematica. source
• 02-03 Simone Weil · Gravity and Grace; attention and affliction. source
• 02-08 Peter Kropotkin · Died. Mutual Aid; anarchist communism. source
• 02-08 Iris Murdoch · Died. The Sovereignty of Good; attention. source
• 02-09 Thomas Paine · Common Sense; the rights of man. source
• 02-10 Montesquieu · Died. The Spirit of the Laws; separation of powers. source
• 02-11 René Descartes · Died. Cogito ergo sum; mind-body dualism. source
• 02-12 Immanuel Kant · Died. Critiques; the categorical imperative. source
• 02-14 Frederick Douglass · Narrative; abolition and equal rights. source
• 02-15 Alfred North Whitehead · Process philosophy. source
• 02-15 Jeremy Bentham · Utilitarianism; the greatest happiness. source
• 02-17 Jiddu Krishnamurti · Died. Freedom from the known. source
• 02-20 Frederick Douglass · Died. Narrative; abolition and equal rights. source
• 02-21 Baruch Spinoza · Died. Ethics; God or Nature. 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
• 02-23 W. E. B. Du Bois · Double consciousness; The Souls of Black Folk. source
• 02-28 Michel de Montaigne · Essays; skeptical self-examination. source
• 03-07 Thomas Aquinas · Died. Summa Theologica; faith and reason reconciled. source

+ 123 more day-precise entries in the corpus.

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.

• Thales -624
• Thales -546
• Anaximander -610
• Anaximander -546
• Pythagoras -570
• Pythagoras -495
• Heraclitus -535
• Heraclitus -475
• Parmenides -515
• Parmenides -450
• Democritus -460
• Democritus -370
• Socrates -469
• Socrates -399
• Plato -428
• Plato -348
• Aristotle -384
• Aristotle -322