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Table of Contents
I. Introduction
II. Branches of Philosophy
III. Schools of Thoughts
IV. Political Philosophy
V. Ancient Philosophy
VI. Medieval Philosophy
VII. Modern Philosophy
List of Philosophers
Glossary
I. Introduction
Introduction: Western philosophy | Philosophical doctrines | Ethics and political philosophy in the West | Applied philosophy | Eastern philosophy | African philosophy
Eastern and Western Philosophy: Eastern | Western
History of Western Philosophy: Ancient | Medieval | Modern | 19th to mid-20th century | List of western philosophers
II. Branches of Philosophy
Metaphysics | Epistemology | Ethics | Logic | Aesthetics
III. Schools of Thoughts
Analytic Philosophy | Aristotelianism | Classical Marxism | Continental philosophy | Cynics | Deconstructionism | Deism | Deontology | Dialectical materialism | Dualism | Eclecticism | Empiricism | Epicureanism | Existentialism | Feminism | German idealism | Hedonism | Hegelianism | Hermeneutics | Historical materialism | Humanism | Idealism | Kantianism | Logical Positivism | Marxism | Materialism | Monism | Neoplatonism | Nihilism | Objectivism | Ordinary Language | Phenomenology | Platonism | Positivism | Post-modernism | Post-structuralism | Pragmatism | Presocratic | Rationalism | Realism | Relativism | Scholasticism | Skepticism | Sophism | Stoicism | Structuralism | Transcendentalism | Utilitarianism | Virtue Ethics
IV. Political Philosophy
Political Philosophy: History | Contemporary political philosophy | Influential political philosophers | Aristocracy | Meritocracy | Monarchy | Tyrany | Oligarchy | Plutocracy | Democracy | Humanism | Liberalism | Utilitarianism | Communitarianism | Feudalism | Capitalism | Fascism | Marxism | Communism | Despotism | Anarchism | Syndicalism
V. Ancient Philosophy
Ancient Philosophy: Western | Indian | Old Iranian | Chinese
Greek philosophy: Pre-Socratic philosophy
Milesian school: Thales | Anaximander | Anaximenes of Miletus
Pythagoreanism: Pythagoras | Philolaus | Alcmaeon | Archytas | Timaeus
Ephesian School: Heraclitus
Eleatic School: Xenophanes | Parmenides | Zeno of Elea | Melissus of Samos
Pluralist School: Anaxagoras | Empedocles
Atomist School: Leucippus | Democritus
Sophism: Protagoras | Gorgias | Prodicus | Hippias | Diogenes of Apollonia | Pherecydes
Socrates: Socratic method | Socratic dialogue
Plato: Platonic idealism | Platonic realism | Middle Platonism | Platonic epistemology | Platonic doctrine of recollection | Theory of forms
Aristotle
Hellenistic Philosophy: Cynicism | Epicureanism | Hedonism | Eclecticism | Skepticism | Stoicism | Sophism
Neoplatonism: Ammonius Saccas | Plotinus | Hypatia of Alexandria | Iamblichus of Chalcis | Proclus | Hierocles of Alexandria | Simplicius of Cilicia | Damascius
VI. Medieval Philosophy
Philosophy: Scholasticism | Supposition theory | Renaissance of the 12th century
Philosophers: Anselm of Canterbury - Ontological argument | Roscellinus - Nominalism | Peter Abelard | Avicenna | Averroes | Maimonides | Saint Thomas Aquinas | William of Ockham - Occam's razor
VII. Modern Philosophy
Rationalism: Dualism | Materialism | René Descartes | Baruch Spinoza | Gottfried Leibniz | Immanuel Kant
Empiricism: John Locke | George Berkeley | David Hume
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