← Bentham⏳ 1748–1832
🔢 Who lived at the same time as Bentham?
Every thinker below, drawn from the AGORA universe with attested dates, genuinely overlapped with Bentham (1748–1832) — they may never have met, but they breathed the air of the same age.
Contemporaries (overlapping lives) · 9
🌀Hegel1770–1831 · 61 years of overlapGerman Philosopher, Builder of the System of the Dialectic and Absolute Spirit⏰Kant1724–1804 · 56 years of overlapGerman Philosopher, Founder of German Classical Philosophy, Proposer of the "Copernican Revolution"🌑Schopenhauer1788–1860 · 44 years of overlapGerman Philosopher, Representative of Voluntarist Pessimism🖋️Voltaire1694–1778 · 30 years of overlapFrench Enlightenment Thinker, Spokesman for Rationalism and Religious Tolerance📖Rousseau1712–1778 · 30 years of overlapFrench Enlightenment Thinker, Important Representative of Social Contract Theory and the "State of Nature"🌊Hume1711–1776 · 28 years of overlapScottish Philosopher, the Great Synthesizer of Empiricist Skepticism⚖️Mill1806–1873 · 26 years of overlapEnglish Philosopher, Important Representative of Utilitarianism and Liberalism⛰️Kierkegaard1813–1855 · 19 years of overlapDanish Philosopher, Forerunner of Existentialist Philosophy📕Marx1818–1883 · 14 years of overlapGerman Philosopher, Proposer of Historical Materialism
Near misses (within 60 years) · 6
⚡Nietzsche1844–1900 · born 12 years after Bentham diedGerman Philosopher, Proposer of the "Will to Power" and the Revaluation of Values➕Leibniz1646–1716 · died 32 years before Bentham was bornGerman Philosopher and Mathematician, Proposer of the Monadology and the "Best of All Possible Worlds"📐Russell1872–1970 · born 40 years after Bentham diedEnglish Philosopher and Mathematician, One of the Founders of Analytic Philosophy📄Locke1632–1704 · died 44 years before Bentham was bornEnglish Philosopher, Founder of Empiricism and Liberal Political Philosophy🗣️Wittgenstein1889–1951 · born 57 years after Bentham diedAustrian-Born Philosopher, Proposer of the "Picture Theory" and "Language Games" in the Philosophy of Language🌲Heidegger1889–1976 · born 57 years after Bentham diedGerman Philosopher, Important Representative of Existentialism and Phenomenology