Well known anicent Philosophers, not Confucious
2007-03-20 05:24:54 · 10 answers · asked by derejrcar 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Start by reading The pre-Socratic Philosophers: the early Greeks, the Cynics, the Stoics,
the Epicureans. Start by reading Wole Soyinka, Confucius, Democritus, Leucippus, Pythagoras, & Nicholas Copernicus.
The Idealists: Plato, Hypatia, George Berkeley, Georg Wilhelmm Friedrich Hegel.
The Materialists: Aristotle, Karl Markx
The Scholastics: St. Augustine, St. Anselm, St. Thomas Aquinas
The Rationalists: Parmenides, Rene` Descartes, baruch Spinoza
Gottfried Leibniz
The Empiricists: John Locke, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Karl
Popper
The Pragmatists: Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, John Dewey
The Phenomenologists: Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Pointy
The Existentialists: Jean-Paul Sartre, Soren Kierkegaard
Feminist Philosophers: Mary Wollstonecraft, Simone De Beauvoir, Luce Irigaray
The Postmodernists: Heraclitus, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ludwig Wittengenstein, Thomas Kuhn, Michael Foucault and Jacques Derrida.
2007-03-20 06:06:43 · answer #1 · answered by Sabine 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Plato, Aristotle, Thales, Pythagoras, Anaximander, Anaximenes, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Xeno, Empedocles, just to name some of the Greeks.
2007-03-20 05:40:09 · answer #2 · answered by IQ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You mean philosophers of the period about 500 B.C. - i.e . way ahead of Aristotle ,Plato ,Socrates ....
Try Leh - O - Tshe .--A contemporary of Confucious ,but older than him .
2007-03-20 06:03:59 · answer #3 · answered by subra 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, to name a few.
2007-03-20 05:33:16 · answer #4 · answered by Ted G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Parmenides and Heraclitus (Ancient Greeks) both had huge influences on Plato.
2007-03-20 05:37:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Super mega fun-bag of philosophers here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_philosophy
2007-03-20 05:58:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
plato, aristotle, socrates are the three most well known greek philosophers
2007-03-20 05:37:16 · answer #7 · answered by chaseselby 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Plato, Socrates, Zeno, Pythagorous, Rhodes...
It goes on forever, they were just off the top of my head!
2007-03-20 05:32:11 · answer #8 · answered by Ladytron 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One that is not so ancient, but passed away.
Osho
2007-03-20 06:38:30 · answer #9 · answered by Timeless - watcher 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the great cow feet of dog dumb
2007-03-20 05:29:15 · answer #10 · answered by henryredwons 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋