====== Western Philosophy ======
A general timeline of developments in the Western canon ... the philosophy covered is largely **exoteric**. A section on [[esoteric philosophy]] will be developed in time.

===== - Ancient =====
==== - Pre-Socratic ====
  * Thales
  * Anaximander
  * Anaximenes
  * Pythagoras 
  * Parmenides
  * Heraclitus
  * Empedocles
==== - Classical ====
  * Socrates
  * Plato
  * Aristotle
  * Cynics
==== - Greek/Roman ====
  * Pyrrhonism
  * Epicureanism
  * Stoicism
  * Neopythagoreanism
===== - Modern =====
==== - Early Modern ====
  * Rationalists:
    * Rene Descartes
    * Spinoza
    * Liebniz
  * Empiricists:
    * John Locke
    * George Berkeley 
    * David Hume
  * Science:
    * Galileo 
    * Newton
  * Politics:
    * Thomas Hobbes
    * Rosseau 

==== - Late Modern ====
  * Immanuel Kant
  * Arthur Schopenhauer 
  * Georg Hegel
    * Karl Marx
  * Friedrich Nietzsche
  * Soren Kierkegaard 

===== - Contemporary =====
==== - Analytic ====
==== - Continental ====

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