Synopsis of Western Philosophy
OVERVIEW
CULTURES IN THE AEGEAN after 2,500 BC
- The Theogony by Hesiod
- The Iliad by Homer
- The Odyssey by Homer
THE PRESOCRATICS (7th - 5th cent. BC)
- Histories by Herodotus
- Fragments by Heraclitus
THE SOCRATICS (5th - 4th cent. BC)
- The Republic by Plato
- The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
THE HELLENISTIC PERIOD (3rd.BC - 1st. AD)
- The Axial Age
- The Silk Roads
THE ROMANS (1st.BC - 5th.AD)
EASTERN MIDDLE AGES (6th - 12th. cent.)
WESTERN MIDDLE AGES (6th. - 13th.)
RENAISSANCE Italy (12th - 14th)
- 'The School of Athens' by Raphael
RENAISSANCE: Rest of Europe (14th)
MODERN: Northern Europe 15th & 16th.)
MODERN: Southern Europe (15th - 16th.)
AGE OF REASON: N. Europe (17th.)
AGE OF REASON: Southern Europe (17th.)
THE ENLIGHTENMENT: N. Europe, (18th)
THE ENLIGHTENMENT : S. Europe (18th.)
CONTEMPORARY - USA (19th & 20th)
CONTEMPORAY : N. Europe (19th. & 20th.)
CONTEMPORAY: S. Europe (19th & 20th)
CONTEMPORARY: QUANTUM MECHANICS (20th cent.)
SYNTHESIS
- Philosophies and Truth
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