Philosophers

• Plato

  c. 428/427–348/347 BCE

• Aristotle

  384–322 BCE

• René Descartes

  1596–1650

• John Locke

  1632–1704

• David Hume

  1711–1776

• Immanuel Kant

  1724–1804

• John Stuart Mill

  1806–1873

• Friedrich Nietzsche

  1844–1900

• Søren Kierkegaard

  1813–1855

• Jean-Paul Sartre

  1905–1980

• Albert Camus

  1913–1960

• Simone de Beauvoir

  1908–1986

• Hannah Arendt

  1906–1975

• John Rawls

  1921–2002

• Thomas Nagel

  Born 1937

• Confucius

  551–479 BCE, traditional

• Mencius

  Fourth–third century BCE, traditional dates uncertain

• Zhuangzi

  Traditionally fourth century BCE; the dates are uncertain

• Mozi

  Traditionally fifth century BCE; dates uncertain

• Nāgārjuna

  c. 2nd–3rd century CE; the dates are uncertain