History of Philosophy

The history of philosophy is the compilation and study of philosophical ideas and concepts through time. Issues specifically related to history of philosophy might include (but are not limited to): How can changes in philosophy be accounted for historically? What drives the development of thought in its historical context? To what degree can philosophical texts from prior historical eras be understood even today?

All cultures — be they prehistoric, medieval, or modern; Eastern, Western, religious orsecular — have had their own unique schools of philosophy, arrived at through both inheritance and through independent discovery. Such theories have grown from differentpremises and approaches, examples of which include (but are not limited to) rationalism(theories arrived at through pure reason), empiricism (theories arrived at through observation), and even through leaps of faith, hope and inheritance (such as thesupernaturalist philosophies and religions).

History of philosophy seeks to catalogue and classify such development. The goal is to understand the development of philosophical ideas through time.

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• 1Western philosophy
  • 1.1Ancient philosophy
    • 1.1.1Pre-Socratics
      • 1.1.1.1Being and becoming
      • 1.1.1.2Pluralism
      • 1.1.1.3Atomism and Sophistry
    • 1.1.2Athens
      • 1.1.2.1Socrates
      • 1.1.2.2Plato
      • 1.1.2.3Aristotle
        • 1.1.2.3.1Hellenistic
  • 1.2Medieval philosophy
  • 1.3Renaissance philosophy
  • 1.4Modern philosophy
  • 1.5Contemporary philosophy
    • 1.5.1Analytic
      • 1.5.1.1Logicism
      • 1.5.1.2"Psychologism"
      • 1.5.1.3Language
    • 1.5.2Continental
• 2Eastern philosophy
  • 2.1Babylonian philosophy
  • 2.2Indian philosophy
  • 2.3Persian philosophy
  • 2.4Chinese philosophy
• 3Monotheistic philosophy
  • 3.1Jewish philosophy
  • 3.2Christian philosophy
  • 3.3Islamic philosophy
    • 3.3.1Religious roots
    • 3.3.2Transferring of Greek philosophy
    • 3.3.3Periods
      • 3.3.3.1Early Islamic philosophy
      • 3.3.3.2Mystical philosophy
      • 3.3.3.3Transcendent Theosophy
      • 3.3.3.4Modern era
  • 3.4Judeo-Islamic philosophy
• 4African philosophy
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