Philosopher & Book Index (Chronological)

This page lists philosophers and books covered on PHILOSOPHIA in chronological order. Use the links to jump directly to each article.

Philosopher Index

Dates	Philosopher	Article
c. 624–c. 546 BCE	Thales	"All Things Are Water"
c. 610–c. 546 BCE	Anaximander	"The Principle Is the Boundless"
c. 585–c. 528 BCE	Anaximenes	"The Principle Is Air"
c. 570–c. 490 BCE	Pythagoras	"All Things Are Number"
c. 570–c. 478 BCE	Xenophanes	Religious Critique and Limits of Knowledge
c. 535–c. 475 BCE	Heraclitus	"All Things Are in Flux"
c. 515–c. 450 BCE	Parmenides	"What Is, Is; What Is Not, Is Not"
c. 460–c. 370 BCE	Democritus	"Only Atoms and the Void Truly Exist"
c. 470–399 BCE	Socrates	"I Know That I Know Nothing"
c. 427–347 BCE	Plato	"The Forms" / Phaedo / Apology
c. 412–c. 323 BCE	Diogenes	"Deface the Currency"
384–322 BCE	Aristotle	"All Human Beings by Nature Desire to Know"
c. 342–c. 270 BCE	Epicurus	"Pleasure Is the Beginning and End of the Good"
c. 334–c. 263 BCE	Zeno of Citium	"Live According to Nature"
c. 4 BCE–65 CE	Seneca	"Life Is Long Enough, If You Know How to Use It" / De Ira (On Anger)
354–430	Augustine	"I Have Become a Question to Myself"
c. 1220–c. 1292	Roger Bacon	"Nothing Can Be Sufficiently Known Without Experience"
c. 1225–1274	Thomas Aquinas	"Grace Does Not Destroy Nature but Perfects It"
1561–1626	Francis Bacon	The Lord Chancellor Who Redesigned the Method of Knowledge
1588–1679	Thomas Hobbes	The Philosopher Who Engineered the State from Fear
1596–1650	Descartes	"I Think, Therefore I Am"
1469–1527	Machiavelli	The Prince
1844–1900	Friedrich Nietzsche	What Remains After 'God Is Dead'?
1859–1941	Bergson	The Philosophy of Duration
1870–1945	Nishida Kitaro	Absolutely Contradictory Self-Identity
1906–1975	Hannah Arendt	When Thinking Stops, What Are We Capable Of?
1937–	Thomas Nagel	What Is It Like to Be a Bat?

Book Index

Date (Approx.)	Book	Author	Article
c. 385 BCE	Phaedo	Plato	Go to article
c. 399 BCE	Apology of Socrates	Plato	Go to article
c. 41 CE	De Ira (On Anger)	Seneca	Go to article
1513 (pub. 1532)	The Prince	Machiavelli	Go to article

* Dates follow the timeline labels used in existing articles and are approximate where necessary.