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- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- c. 1500 BCE: The Vedas
- c. 585 BCE: Birth of Western Philosophy
- c. 550 BCE: The Dao
- c. 540 BCE: Reincarnation
- c. 540 BCE: Ahimsa
- c. 530 BCE: Anthropomorphization
- c. 525 BCE: The Four Noble Truths
- c. 525 BCE: No-Self (Anatta)
- c. 500 BCE: Confucian Ethics
- c. 500 BCE: Reciprocity
- c. 500 BCE: Change Is Constant
- c. 500 BCE: The Book of Job
- c. 470 BCE: Change Is Illusory
- c. 460 BCE: Mind Organizes Nature
- c. 460 BCE: The Paradoxes of Motion
- c. 450 BCE: Survival of the Fittest
- c. 450 BCE: Protagoras and Relativism
- c. 450 BCE: The Sophists
- c. 450 BCE: Ladder of Love
- c. 430 BCE: Know Thyself
- c. 420 BCE: Atoms and the Void
- c. 420 BCE: Universal Love
- c. 400 BCE: Cynicism
- c. 400 BCE: Cyrenaic Hedonism
- c. 400 BCE: The Bhagavad Gita
- 399 BCE: The Trial and Death of Socrates
- c. 399 BCE: Socratic Dialogues
- c. 386 BCE: Plato Founds the Academy
- c. 380 BCE: The World of the Forms
- c. 380 BCE: Plato's Republic
- c. 380 BCE: Mind-Body Dualism
- c. 367 BCE: Aristotle Enrolls in the Academy
- 334 BCE: Hellenization Begins
- c. 330 BCE: The Invention of Logic
- c. 330 BCE: The Earth-Centered Universe
- c. 330 BCE: Matter and Form
- c. 330 BCE: The Four Causes
- c. 330 BCE: Nicomachean Ethics
- c. 320 BCE: Maybe Life Is a Dream
- c. 300 BCE: Ecclesiastes
- c. 300 BCE: Epicureanism
- c. 300 BCE: Stoicism
- c. 300 BCE: Innate Goodness
- 155 BCE: Carneades on Justice
- c. 55 BCE: On the Nature of Things
- 51 BCE: Universal Moral Law
- c. 30 CE: The Christian Era Begins
- c. 65: Buddhism Comes to China
- 65: The Death of Seneca
- c. 125: Epictetian Stoicism
- c. 150: Platonism and Christianity
- 180: The Philosopher-King
- c. 200: Outlines of Pyrrhonism
- c. 250: Neoplatonism
- c. 285: The Problem of Universals
- 386: Augustine's Conversion
- 415: Death of Hypatia
- 426: The City of God
- c. 460: The Last Great Greek Philosopher
- 476: The Dark Ages Begin
- c. 500: The Way of Negation
- c. 520: Origins of Chan/Zen Buddhism
- 524: The Consolations of Philosophy
- 529: Justinian Closes the Academy
- c. 630: The Rise and Spread of Islam
- c. 700: Huineng and the Platform Sutra
- c. 810: Monism
- c. 840: Islamic Philosophy Begins
- c. 865: Eriugena's Christian Neoplatonism
- c. 1015: Ibn Sina's Islamic Aristotelianism
- 1078: The Ontological Argument
- c. 1093: The Incoherence of the Philosophers
- 1121: The Birth of Scholasticism
- c. 1130: Aristotelian Revival in the West
- c. 1135: Qualified Dualism
- c. 1180: Revival of Confucianism
- c. 1185: The Commentator
- c. 1190: The Guide for the Perplexed
- c. 1220: Philosophers Join Academia
- c. 1250: The Universal Doctor
- 1259: A Franciscan Approach to Philosophy
- c. 1265: The Great Medieval Synthesis
- c. 1265: The Five Ways
- c. 1270: Natural Law
- c. 1300: Attack on the Medieval Synthesis
- c. 1300: Mystical Theology
- c. 1320: Ockham's Razor
- c. 1320: Conceptualism
- 1324: The Defender of Peace
- c. 1350: The Renaissance Begins
- 1440: The Synthesis of Opposites
- 1468: The Recovery of Platonism
- 1516: Utopia
- 1517: The Reformation Begins
- c. 1520: The Humanist Ideal
- c. 1525: The Silver Age of Scholasticism
- 1532: The Prince
- 1539: The Rights of Native Peoples
- 1543: The Birth of Modern Science
- 1580: Revival of Classical Skepticism
- 1605: The Advancement of Learning
- 1620: The Enlightenment Begins
- 1625: On the Law of War and Peace
- 1637: The Father of Modern Philosophy
- 1641: Meditations on First Philosophy
- 1651: Leviathan
- 1651: Free Will and Determinism Are Compatible
- 1670: Pascal's Wager
- 1674: Occasionalism
- 1677: Ethics
- 1689: Human Rights
- 1689: Religious Liberty
- 1689: Empiricism
- c. 1700: Preestablished Harmony
- 1713: To Be Is to Be Perceived
- 1725: The Moral Sense
- 1730: Deism
- 1736: The Analogy of Religion
- 1739: A Treatise of Human Nature
- 1739: The Problem of Induction
- 1748: An Attack on Miracles
- 1748: The Spirit of the Laws
- 1751: Morality Is Rooted in Feeling
- 1754: America's First Major Philosopher
- 1759: Candide
- c. 1760: The Birth of Romanticism
- 1762: The Social Contract
- 1762: Emile and Natural Education
- 1764: The Philosophy of Common Sense
- 1770: A Godless, Mechanistic Universe
- 1779: Hume's Dialogues
- 1781: Critique of Pure Reason
- 1785: The Categorical Imperative
- 1787: The Federalist
- 1789: Utilitarianism
- 1790: Critique of Judgment
- 1790: Forefather of Conservatism
- 1792: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
- c. 1795: The Beginnings of German Idealism
- 1807: The Phenomenology of Spirit
- 1819: The Philosophy of Pessimism
- 1821: The Real Is the Rational
- 1830: Positivism
- 1832: Law and Morality Are Separate
- 1836: American Transcendentalism
- 1841: Idealism Is Turned Upside Down
- 1843: Existentialism
- 1843: A System of Logic
- 1846: Truth Is Subjectivity
- 1848: The Communist Manifesto
- 1854: Walden
- 1859: On Liberty
- 1859: Darwin's Origin of Species
- 1862: Social Darwinism
- 1863: Refined Utilitarianism
- c. 1865: The Rise of British Idealism
- 1867: Capital
- 1869: The Subjection of Women
- 1874: The Methods of Ethics
- 1874: Intentionality
- 1878: Origins of Pragmatism
- 1879: The New Logic
- 1882: "God Is Dead"
- 1882: Perspectivism
- 1887: The Revaluation of Values
- 1890: The Principles of Psychology
- 1897: "The Will to Believe"
- 1900: Phenomenology
- 1901: Environmental Preservationism
- 1902: The Varieties of Religious Experience
- 1903: Ethical Intuitionism
- 1903: The Analytic-Continental Split
- 1905: The Theory of Definite Descriptions
- 1907: Pragmatism
- 1907: Vitalism
- 1910: Principia Mathematica
- 1912: The Problems of Philosophy
- 1916: Progressive Education
- 1918: Logical Atomism
- 1920: Contemplation vs. Enjoyment
- c. 1920: Neo-Thomism
- 1921: The Picture Theory of Language
- 1923: I and Thou
- 1925: Instrumentalism
- 1927: Being and Time
- 1927: Religion as Wish Fulfillment
- 1929: Process Philosophy
- 1929: An Idealist View of Life
- 1930: Deontological Intuitionism
- 1932: Ordinary Language Philosophy
- 1934: The Rejection of Metaphysics
- 1936: Logical Positivism
- 1938: Nausea
- 1942: Existential Defiance
- 1943: Being and Nothingness
- 1944: Emotivism
- 1945: The Phenomenology of Perception
- 1946: Atheistic Existentialism
- 1949: The Ghost in the Machine
- 1949: The Second Sex
- 1949: Ecocentrism
- 1951: "Two Dogmas of Empiricism"
- 1952: Prescriptivism
- 1953: Philosophical Investigations
- 1953: Impossibility of a Private Language
- 1954: The New Riddle of Induction
- 1957: Intention
- 1959: Falsifiability in Science
- 1959: Descriptive Metaphysics
- 1960: The Indeterminacy of Translation
- 1960: Hermeneutics
- 1960: Functionalism
- 1961: Legal Positivism
- 1962: Scientific Revolutions
- 1962: Oxford Ordinary Language Philosophy
- 1963: The Gettier Problem
- 1966: Soul-Making Theodicy
- 1967: Deconstruction
- c. 1968: The (Re)birth of Applied Ethics
- 1968: Mind-Brain Identity Theory
- 1970: Anomalous Monism
- 1971: A Theory of Justice
- c. 1971: The Rise of Informal Logic
- 1974: Political Libertarianism
- 1974: "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?"
- 1974: Essentialism
- 1975: Animal Liberation
- 1975: Power/Knowledge
- c. 1976: Emergence of Feminist Philosophy
- 1977: Moral Anti-Realism
- 1977: Taking Rights Seriously
- 1979: The New Pragmatism
- 1979: Postmodernism
- 1979: Reliabilism
- 1980: The Chinese Room
- 1980: The Causal Theory of Reference
- 1981: The Revival of Virtue Ethics
- 1981: Critical Theory
- 1982: In a Different Voice
- 1984: Revival of Christian Philosophy
- 1984: Reasons and Persons
- 1984: The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law
- 1985: The Peculiar Institution of Morality
- 1987: Pragmatic Realism
- 1989: Religious Pluralism
- 1991: Philosophical Zombies
- 2000: The Capability Approach
- 2004: The New Atheists
- 2006: Cosmopolitanism
- 2011: The Triple Theory of Ethics
- Notes and Further Reading
- Image Credits
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