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Plato, father of Idealism, espoused the view of Idealism in his famous book entitled, "The Republic".
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Aristotle, father of realism, believed that to understand an object (its ultimate form has to be understood which does not change.
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Thomas Aquinas, the father of Theistic Realism or Neo-theism, earned his Master's degree in Theology and was ordained as a priest. Together with other Scholastic philosophers, they sought to create a synthesis of Greek rationalism. "Summa Theologiae" was one of his important philosophical work.
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Bishop George Berkeley is sometimes known as the "Father of Modern Idealism", and he formulated one of the purest forms of Idealism in the early 18th Century.
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The term "Idealism" entered English language.
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Idealism was first used in the abstract metaphysical sense "belief that reality is made up only of ideas by Christian Wolff.
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The Scottish common sense realism, also known as the Scottish school of common sense is a realist school of philosophy that published during this year. It originated in the ideas of Scottish philosophers Thomas Reid, Adam Ferguson, James Beattie, and Dugald Stewart during the Scottish enlightenment.
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Charls Sanders Perice, an American philosopher, first proposes Pragmatism as a principle of inquiry and an account of meaning.
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Perice coined the term and described it in his pragmatic maxim: "Consider the practical effects of the objects of your conception.
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William James, whose ability to translate difficult philosophical principles for laypersons helped spread the tenets of pragmatism until the first quarter of the 20th century.
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George Edward Moore argued for a theory of truth that implies that the physical world foes have the independent existence that it is naively supposed to have. Although the theory was soon abandoned, it represented British philosophy’s return to common sense.
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The term existentialism was coined by the French Catholic philosopher Gabriel Marcel.
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Marcel applied the term to Jean-Paul Sarte, at a colloquium but this was rejected by Sartre. Sartre subsequently changed his mind and publicly adopted the existentialist label in a lecture to Club Maintenant in Paris, published as L’existentialisme est un humanisme (Existentialism is a Humanism), a short book that helped popularize existentialist thought.
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The term, 'analytic philosophy' was introduced in 1960 by Gustav Bergmann (1906–87), and later formed the title of an influential collection that was published in 1967, edited by Richard Rorty (1931–2007)
