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FOCE timeline: Philosophers and Ethical events.

  • Oedipus Rex
    430 BCE

    Oedipus Rex

    Aristotle said that arts started because of the necesity of humans to imitate life and that the tragedies are the imitation of situations which give us a learning. Aristotle considered the tragedy "Oedipus Rex" as the best tragedy ever. This tragedy was written by Sophocles.
  • Plato
    424 BCE

    Plato

    He made the "allegory of the cave" which compare "the effect of education and the lack of it on our nature"
  • Aristotle
    384 BCE

    Aristotle

    He wrote "Nichomachean Ethics" which was one of the first books about Ethics. He separated Intellectual virtues from Moral virtues. Aristotle is considered as a materiallist philosopher. He defined morality as the study of right and wrong.
  • Seneca
    4 BCE

    Seneca

    You can achieve happiness having suffering. Putting stop to your passions
  • Year 1
    1 BCE

    Year 1

    When Jesus Crist was born
  • St. Augustine
    354

    St. Augustine

    After a life of sin, St. Augustine decided to become a better man, so he looked for God. He said we can base our desicions in God.
  • Saint Thomas Aquinas
    Mar 7, 1225

    Saint Thomas Aquinas

    Your actions depend in what you are: if you are a bad person you will do bad actions.
  • Kant

    Kant

    Kant supposed, only rational beings do so consciously, in obedience to the objective principles determined by practical reason. Of course, human agents also have subjective impulses—desires and inclinations that may contradict the dictates of reason. So we experience the claim of reason as an obligation, a command that we act in a particular way, or an imperative. Such imperatives may occur in either of two distinct forms, hypothetical or categorical.
  • John Stuart Mill

    John Stuart Mill

    Mill's major contribution to utilitarianism is his argument for the qualitative separation of pleasures. Mill argues that intellectual and moral pleasures (higher pleasures) are superior to more physical forms of pleasure (lower pleasures). Mill distinguishes between happiness and contentment, claiming that the former is of higher value than the latter.
  • Charles Darwin

    Charles Darwin

    Charles Darwin was the first one to establish a relationship between development of a species and others species. He also said that since we are born we face challenges, so when we study the species we are also studying conflicts.
  • Mexico's Independence

    Mexico's Independence

    The trigarant army entry to the Mexico City finishing with the war of Independence and making it free from Spain
  • Sigmund Freud

    Sigmund Freud

    The father of psychoanalysis. He said that humans are driven by unconscious desires
  • Rene Descartes

    Rene Descartes

    Is considered the father of the new philosophy. He said "I think, therefore I exist" as the base of the racionalism. He also created a method to solve problems called Discourse of the Method in which you divide a big problem into small parts and then you solve them.
  • Abraham Maslow

    Abraham Maslow

    The most representative author that talked about needs.
  • Claude Lèvi-Strauss

    Claude Lèvi-Strauss

    Was a French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology.
  • Jack Kevorkian

    Jack Kevorkian

    One of the first doctors who offered the practice of the euthanasia. He removed the suffering of 400 people in the United States.
    More information: https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kevorkian#Biograf.C3.ADa
  • Donald Trump is elected as president.

    Donald Trump is elected as president.

    Donald Trump is the official elected president of the United States. I think that this is an ethical decision because of the lot of things that Donald Trump has said in his campaign.