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| all knowledge derived from experience |
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| existence only acquires value and meaning through active reflection on one's own existence |
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| belief that external world exists first and foremost in perceivers mind |
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| belief that a concept is meaningful only if it can be empirically verified |
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| rebirth of platonic thought in Europe from 250-1250, incorporated ideas of Aristotle, Pythagorus & others into plato |
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| belief that the world can be known through reason alone |
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| system of ethics based on maximizing the collective good |
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| 13th - Christian, wrote 'The Five Ways', proof for God |
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| 4th BCE - Plato's student who criticized the theory of Forms and developed systematized logic |
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| 4-5th - bishop, philosopher, Neo-Platonist |
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| 17-18th - Irish idealists viewed mental representations and impressions as fundamental |
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| 16-17th - French rationalist philosopher and mathematician, saw mind and body as distinct (Cartesian dualism) |
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| 18-19th - German idealist known for theory of dialectic, thesis+antithesis |
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| 20th - German major influence on existentialism |
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| 16-17th - British materialist philosopher who viewed human existence as 'nasty brutish and short' |
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| 18th - Scottish empiricist philosopher, questions necessity of the connection between cause and effect |
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| 19-20th - German philosopher known as the father of phenomenology |
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| 19th - American empiricist philosopher and psychologist, known for ideas as 'stream of consciousness' |
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| 19th - Danish existentialist philosopher |
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| Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz |
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| 17th - German rationalist philosopher and mathematician |
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| 17th - English empiricist philosopher, tabula rasa, important in enlightenment |
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| 19th - English empiricist philosopher known for ethical writing on utilitarianism |
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| 19th - German philosopher known for Ubermensch |
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| 14th - English philosopher known for 'parsimony' simpler more preferable to complex |
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| 17th - French philosopher, mathematician, theologian, Pascals Bargain - belief in God |
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| 4th BCE, - Greek studied under Socrates, theory of Forms things in world mere reflections or shadows of objects of knowledge which are universals, basis of western philosophy |
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| 5th BCE - pre-socratic philosopher and mathematician |
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| 18th - French Romantic philosopher and philosopher of education |
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| 20th - British philosopher and linguist |
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| 20th - British philosopher of language and logical positivist |
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| 20th - French existentialist |
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| 5th BCE - Greek oral teachings transcribed in part by his student Plato |
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| 11th - Christian philosopher, developed ontological argument for existence of God |
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| 20th - Austrian philosopher began as logical positivist later developed ideas in philosophy of language |
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