← Hobbes⏳ 1588–1679
🐉 Who lived at the same time as Hobbes?
Every thinker below, drawn from the AGORA universe with attested dates, genuinely overlapped with Hobbes (1588–1679) — they may never have met, but they breathed the air of the same age.
Contemporaries (overlapping lives) · 5
🔍Descartes1596–1650 · 54 years of overlapFrench Philosopher and Mathematician, Proposer of "I Think, Therefore I Am," Father of Modern Philosophy📄Locke1632–1704 · 47 years of overlapEnglish Philosopher, Founder of Empiricism and Liberal Political Philosophy🔮Spinoza1632–1677 · 45 years of overlapDutch Philosopher, Representative of Pantheism and Rationalist Ethics🎲Pascal1623–1662 · 39 years of overlapFrench Mathematician and Philosopher, Proposer of "Pascal’s Wager"➕Leibniz1646–1716 · 33 years of overlapGerman Philosopher and Mathematician, Proposer of the Monadology and the "Best of All Possible Worlds"
Near misses (within 60 years) · 5
🖋️Voltaire1694–1778 · born 15 years after Hobbes diedFrench Enlightenment Thinker, Spokesman for Rationalism and Religious Tolerance🌊Hume1711–1776 · born 32 years after Hobbes diedScottish Philosopher, the Great Synthesizer of Empiricist Skepticism📖Rousseau1712–1778 · born 33 years after Hobbes diedFrench Enlightenment Thinker, Important Representative of Social Contract Theory and the "State of Nature"⏰Kant1724–1804 · born 45 years after Hobbes diedGerman Philosopher, Founder of German Classical Philosophy, Proposer of the "Copernican Revolution"💭Wang Yangming1472–1529 · died 59 years before Hobbes was bornMing Thinker, Great Synthesizer of the School of Mind