← Hume⏳ 1711–1776
🌊 Who lived at the same time as Hume?
Every thinker below, drawn from the AGORA universe with attested dates, genuinely overlapped with Hume (1711–1776) — they may never have met, but they breathed the air of the same age.
Contemporaries (overlapping lives) · 6
🖋️Voltaire1694–1778 · 65 years of overlapFrench Enlightenment Thinker, Spokesman for Rationalism and Religious Tolerance📖Rousseau1712–1778 · 64 years of overlapFrench Enlightenment Thinker, Important Representative of Social Contract Theory and the "State of Nature"⏰Kant1724–1804 · 52 years of overlapGerman Philosopher, Founder of German Classical Philosophy, Proposer of the "Copernican Revolution"🔢Bentham1748–1832 · 28 years of overlapEnglish Philosopher, Founder of Utilitarian Ethics🌀Hegel1770–1831 · 6 years of overlapGerman Philosopher, Builder of the System of the Dialectic and Absolute Spirit➕Leibniz1646–1716 · 5 years of overlapGerman Philosopher and Mathematician, Proposer of the Monadology and the "Best of All Possible Worlds"
Near misses (within 60 years) · 8
📄Locke1632–1704 · died 7 years before Hume was bornEnglish Philosopher, Founder of Empiricism and Liberal Political Philosophy🌑Schopenhauer1788–1860 · born 12 years after Hume diedGerman Philosopher, Representative of Voluntarist Pessimism⚖️Mill1806–1873 · born 30 years after Hume diedEnglish Philosopher, Important Representative of Utilitarianism and Liberalism🐉Hobbes1588–1679 · died 32 years before Hume was bornEnglish Philosopher, Author of Social Contract Theory and Leviathan🔮Spinoza1632–1677 · died 34 years before Hume was bornDutch Philosopher, Representative of Pantheism and Rationalist Ethics⛰️Kierkegaard1813–1855 · born 37 years after Hume diedDanish Philosopher, Forerunner of Existentialist Philosophy📕Marx1818–1883 · born 42 years after Hume diedGerman Philosopher, Proposer of Historical Materialism🎲Pascal1623–1662 · died 49 years before Hume was bornFrench Mathematician and Philosopher, Proposer of "Pascal’s Wager"