← Aristotle⏳ 384 BC–322 BC
📚 Who lived at the same time as Aristotle?
Every thinker below, drawn from the AGORA universe with attested dates, genuinely overlapped with Aristotle (384 BC–322 BC) — they may never have met, but they breathed the air of the same age.
Contemporaries (overlapping lives) · 7
🕯️Diogenesc. 412 BC–323 BC · 61 years of overlapAncient Greek Philosopher, Representative Figure of the Cynic School🌱Menciusc. 372 BC–289 BC · 50 years of overlapThinker of the Warring States Period, Proposer of the Confucian "Innate Goodness of Human Nature"🦋Zhuangzic. 369 BC–286 BC · 47 years of overlapThinker of the Warring States Period, an Important Developer of Daoist Thought🌫️Pyrrhoc. 360 BC–270 BC · 38 years of overlapAncient Greek Philosopher, Founder of the Skeptic School💡Platoc. 427 BC–347 BC · 37 years of overlapAncient Greek Philosopher, Proposer of the Theory of Forms, Founder of the Academy🍇Epicurus341 BC–270 BC · 19 years of overlapAncient Greek Philosopher, Founder of the Epicurean School🏛️Zenoc. 334 BC–262 BC · 12 years of overlapAncient Greek Philosopher, Founder of the Stoic School
Near misses (within 60 years) · 4
⚙️Mozic. 470 BC–391 BC · died 7 years before Aristotle was bornThinker of the Warring States Period, Founder of the Mohist School📜Xunzic. 313 BC–238 BC · born 9 years after Aristotle diedThinker of the Late Warring States Period, Proposer of the Confucian "Innate Badness of Human Nature"❓Socratesc. 470 BC–399 BC · died 15 years before Aristotle was bornAncient Greek Philosopher, Founder of the "Socratic Method"⚖️Han Feizic. 280 BC–233 BC · born 42 years after Aristotle diedThinker of the Late Warring States Period, the Great Synthesizer of Legalist Thought