← Mencius⏳ c. 372 BC–289 BC
🌱 Who lived at the same time as Mencius?
Every thinker below, drawn from the AGORA universe with attested dates, genuinely overlapped with Mencius (c. 372 BC–289 BC) — they may never have met, but they breathed the air of the same age.
Contemporaries (overlapping lives) · 8
🦋Zhuangzic. 369 BC–286 BC · 80 years of overlapThinker of the Warring States Period, an Important Developer of Daoist Thought🌫️Pyrrhoc. 360 BC–270 BC · 71 years of overlapAncient Greek Philosopher, Founder of the Skeptic School🍇Epicurus341 BC–270 BC · 52 years of overlapAncient Greek Philosopher, Founder of the Epicurean School📚Aristotle384 BC–322 BC · 50 years of overlapAncient Greek Philosopher, Founder of Logic and of the Lyceum🕯️Diogenesc. 412 BC–323 BC · 49 years of overlapAncient Greek Philosopher, Representative Figure of the Cynic School🏛️Zenoc. 334 BC–262 BC · 45 years of overlapAncient Greek Philosopher, Founder of the Stoic School💡Platoc. 427 BC–347 BC · 25 years of overlapAncient Greek Philosopher, Proposer of the Theory of Forms, Founder of the Academy📜Xunzic. 313 BC–238 BC · 24 years of overlapThinker of the Late Warring States Period, Proposer of the Confucian "Innate Badness of Human Nature"
Near misses (within 60 years) · 3
⚖️Han Feizic. 280 BC–233 BC · born 9 years after Mencius diedThinker of the Late Warring States Period, the Great Synthesizer of Legalist Thought⚙️Mozic. 470 BC–391 BC · died 19 years before Mencius was bornThinker of the Warring States Period, Founder of the Mohist School❓Socratesc. 470 BC–399 BC · died 27 years before Mencius was bornAncient Greek Philosopher, Founder of the "Socratic Method"