← Kierkegaard⏳ 1813–1855
⛰️ Who lived at the same time as Kierkegaard?
Every thinker below, drawn from the AGORA universe with attested dates, genuinely overlapped with Kierkegaard (1813–1855) — they may never have met, but they breathed the air of the same age.
Contemporaries (overlapping lives) · 6
🌑Schopenhauer1788–1860 · 42 years of overlapGerman Philosopher, Representative of Voluntarist Pessimism⚖️Mill1806–1873 · 42 years of overlapEnglish Philosopher, Important Representative of Utilitarianism and Liberalism📕Marx1818–1883 · 37 years of overlapGerman Philosopher, Proposer of Historical Materialism🔢Bentham1748–1832 · 19 years of overlapEnglish Philosopher, Founder of Utilitarian Ethics🌀Hegel1770–1831 · 18 years of overlapGerman Philosopher, Builder of the System of the Dialectic and Absolute Spirit⚡Nietzsche1844–1900 · 11 years of overlapGerman Philosopher, Proposer of the "Will to Power" and the Revaluation of Values
Near misses (within 60 years) · 12
⏰Kant1724–1804 · died 9 years before Kierkegaard was bornGerman Philosopher, Founder of German Classical Philosophy, Proposer of the "Copernican Revolution"📐Russell1872–1970 · born 17 years after Kierkegaard diedEnglish Philosopher and Mathematician, One of the Founders of Analytic Philosophy🗣️Wittgenstein1889–1951 · born 34 years after Kierkegaard diedAustrian-Born Philosopher, Proposer of the "Picture Theory" and "Language Games" in the Philosophy of Language🌲Heidegger1889–1976 · born 34 years after Kierkegaard diedGerman Philosopher, Important Representative of Existentialism and Phenomenology🖋️Voltaire1694–1778 · died 35 years before Kierkegaard was bornFrench Enlightenment Thinker, Spokesman for Rationalism and Religious Tolerance📖Rousseau1712–1778 · died 35 years before Kierkegaard was bornFrench Enlightenment Thinker, Important Representative of Social Contract Theory and the "State of Nature"🌊Hume1711–1776 · died 37 years before Kierkegaard was bornScottish Philosopher, the Great Synthesizer of Empiricist Skepticism🔬Popper1902–1994 · born 47 years after Kierkegaard diedAustrian-Born Philosopher, Proposer of Falsificationist Philosophy of Science🚬Sartre1905–1980 · born 50 years after Kierkegaard diedFrench Philosopher, Proposer of the Existentialist "Existence Precedes Essence"🕊️Hannah Arendt1906–1975 · born 51 years after Kierkegaard diedGerman-American Philosopher, Proposer of the Theory of the "Banality of Evil"🌷Beauvoir1908–1986 · born 53 years after Kierkegaard diedFrench Philosopher, Founder of Existentialist Feminism☀️Camus1913–1960 · born 58 years after Kierkegaard diedFrench Philosopher and Writer, Representative Figure of the Philosophy of the Absurd