← Hegel⏳ 1770–1831
🌀 Who lived at the same time as Hegel?
Every thinker below, drawn from the AGORA universe with attested dates, genuinely overlapped with Hegel (1770–1831) — they may never have met, but they breathed the air of the same age.
Contemporaries (overlapping lives) · 9
🔢Bentham1748–1832 · 61 years of overlapEnglish Philosopher, Founder of Utilitarian Ethics🌑Schopenhauer1788–1860 · 43 years of overlapGerman Philosopher, Representative of Voluntarist Pessimism⏰Kant1724–1804 · 34 years of overlapGerman Philosopher, Founder of German Classical Philosophy, Proposer of the "Copernican Revolution"⚖️Mill1806–1873 · 25 years of overlapEnglish Philosopher, Important Representative of Utilitarianism and Liberalism⛰️Kierkegaard1813–1855 · 18 years of overlapDanish Philosopher, Forerunner of Existentialist Philosophy📕Marx1818–1883 · 13 years of overlapGerman Philosopher, Proposer of Historical Materialism🖋️Voltaire1694–1778 · 8 years of overlapFrench Enlightenment Thinker, Spokesman for Rationalism and Religious Tolerance📖Rousseau1712–1778 · 8 years of overlapFrench Enlightenment Thinker, Important Representative of Social Contract Theory and the "State of Nature"🌊Hume1711–1776 · 6 years of overlapScottish Philosopher, the Great Synthesizer of Empiricist Skepticism
Near misses (within 60 years) · 5
⚡Nietzsche1844–1900 · born 13 years after Hegel diedGerman Philosopher, Proposer of the "Will to Power" and the Revaluation of Values📐Russell1872–1970 · born 41 years after Hegel diedEnglish Philosopher and Mathematician, One of the Founders of Analytic Philosophy➕Leibniz1646–1716 · died 54 years before Hegel was bornGerman Philosopher and Mathematician, Proposer of the Monadology and the "Best of All Possible Worlds"🗣️Wittgenstein1889–1951 · born 58 years after Hegel diedAustrian-Born Philosopher, Proposer of the "Picture Theory" and "Language Games" in the Philosophy of Language🌲Heidegger1889–1976 · born 58 years after Hegel diedGerman Philosopher, Important Representative of Existentialism and Phenomenology