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624 BCE
Thales of Miletus
He was the founder of the Milesian School of natural philosophy, and the teacher of Anaximander. Renowned for his cosmology that water is based as the essence of all matter which objects are composed with. -
570 BCE
Pythagoras
He was the first person to call himself a philosopher, the founder of the influential philosophical and religious movement called Pythagoreanism. He emphasized the immortality and transmigration of soul or reincarnation and the concept of numbers that math did not only cleared the mind but allowed for an objective comprehension of reality. -
551 BCE
Confucius
Chinese teacher, writer, and philosopher who developed a belief system which emphasized personal and governmental morality through qualities namely justice, sincerity, and positive relationships with others. Believed also in the value of achieving ethical harmony through judgement rather than knowledge of rules, signifying that one should achieve morality through self-cultivation. -
469 BCE
Socrates
He was an ancient Greek philosopher, he claimed that if knowledge can be learned, it will be the same as virtue - one must seek it. Truly, he has held that the virtues of self-control, wisdom, and courage are nothing other than a particular type of knowledge. -
428 BCE
Plato
He was an Athenian philosopher during the classical period. Plato upholds a virtue-based eudaemonistic conception of ethics, to say that happiness or well-being (eudaimonia) is the highest aim of moral thought and conduct, and the virtues (aretê: 'excellence') are the requisite skills and dispositions needed to attain it. -
384 BCE
Aristotle
He was a Greek philosopher who claimed that one attains happiness by a virtuous life and the development of reason and the faculty of theoretical wisdom. He has contributed significant knowledge in every human aspect - logic, ethics, biology, and aesthetics. -
341 BCE
Epicurus
He was a Greek philosopher, the founder of the ancient Greek philosophical school Epicureanism, which is a system of philosophy, founded around 307 B.C. It teaches that the greatest good is to seek modest pleasures in order to attain a state of tranquillity, freedom from fear ("ataraxia") and absence from bodily pain ("aponia"). -
1225
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas was a theologian and a Doctor of the Church in the 13th century. His ethical theory involves with principles on how to act and virtues in which the personality traits are taken to be good.
