Early to Mid 1700's to early 1800's and narrowly referred to as the intellectual movement. This was the age of optimism and recognition of the need for major reforms in human condition. Some call it the Age of Reason or Age of Rationalism.

From approximately 470 BC to 450 AD and starts with the Socratic period in honor of Socrates and Plato who revolutionized philosophy by use of the Socratic Method, which developed general philosophical methods of definition, analysis, and synthesis and w

Estimated time between 450 - 1450 AD and referred to as the Middle Ages. This extends from the fall of the Roman Empire into the Renaissance period. Philosophers of the middle ages rediscovered and further developed classical Greek philosophy to address

Between the 1600's - 1800's and considered the beginning with the revival of skepticism and modern physical science. This era of philosophers is considered to have ended with Kant's systematic attempt to reconcile Newtonian Physics with traditional metap

1800 - 1900

1900 - 2000

Philosophers prior to Socrates, 470 BC. This was the era of Greco-Roman, (Ancient Greek) philosophers prior to the Socratic period and and post Hellenistic periods. This period was characterized by metaphysical speculation and carried great influence to

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