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Timeline of Major Ethical Philosophies

  • SOCRATES
    469 BCE

    SOCRATES

  • Period: 469 BCE to 399 BCE

    SOCRATES

    Socrates was an Athenian Philosopher whose questions and opinions clashed with the current course of Athenian politics and society.
  • PLATO
    428 BCE

    PLATO

  • Period: 428 BCE to 348 BCE

    PLATO

    Plato is viewed by many scholars as the
    most important Philosopher of Western civilization.
    Plato held that moral values are objective in the sense
    that they exist in a spirit-like realm beyond subjective
    human conventions.
  • ARISTOTLE
    384 BCE

    ARISTOTLE

  • Period: 384 BCE to 322 BCE

    ARISTOTLE

    Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. Taught by Plato, he was the founder of the Lyceum, the Peripatetic school of philosophy, and the Aristotelian tradition.
  • THOMAS HOBBES

    THOMAS HOBBES

  • Period: to

    THOMAS HOBBES

    Thomas Hobbes believes that human beings are
    basically selfish creatures who would do anything to improve their position.