← Mill⏳ 1806–1873
⚖️ Who lived at the same time as Mill?
Every thinker below, drawn from the AGORA universe with attested dates, genuinely overlapped with Mill (1806–1873) — they may never have met, but they breathed the air of the same age.
Contemporaries (overlapping lives) · 7
📕Marx1818–1883 · 55 years of overlapGerman Philosopher, Proposer of Historical Materialism🌑Schopenhauer1788–1860 · 54 years of overlapGerman Philosopher, Representative of Voluntarist Pessimism⛰️Kierkegaard1813–1855 · 42 years of overlapDanish Philosopher, Forerunner of Existentialist Philosophy⚡Nietzsche1844–1900 · 29 years of overlapGerman Philosopher, Proposer of the "Will to Power" and the Revaluation of Values🔢Bentham1748–1832 · 26 years of overlapEnglish Philosopher, Founder of Utilitarian Ethics🌀Hegel1770–1831 · 25 years of overlapGerman Philosopher, Builder of the System of the Dialectic and Absolute Spirit📐Russell1872–1970 · 1 years of overlapEnglish Philosopher and Mathematician, One of the Founders of Analytic Philosophy
Near misses (within 60 years) · 14
⏰Kant1724–1804 · died 2 years before Mill was bornGerman Philosopher, Founder of German Classical Philosophy, Proposer of the "Copernican Revolution"🗣️Wittgenstein1889–1951 · born 16 years after Mill diedAustrian-Born Philosopher, Proposer of the "Picture Theory" and "Language Games" in the Philosophy of Language🌲Heidegger1889–1976 · born 16 years after Mill diedGerman Philosopher, Important Representative of Existentialism and Phenomenology🖋️Voltaire1694–1778 · died 28 years before Mill was bornFrench Enlightenment Thinker, Spokesman for Rationalism and Religious Tolerance📖Rousseau1712–1778 · died 28 years before Mill was bornFrench Enlightenment Thinker, Important Representative of Social Contract Theory and the "State of Nature"🔬Popper1902–1994 · born 29 years after Mill diedAustrian-Born Philosopher, Proposer of Falsificationist Philosophy of Science🌊Hume1711–1776 · died 30 years before Mill was bornScottish Philosopher, the Great Synthesizer of Empiricist Skepticism🚬Sartre1905–1980 · born 32 years after Mill diedFrench Philosopher, Proposer of the Existentialist "Existence Precedes Essence"🕊️Hannah Arendt1906–1975 · born 33 years after Mill diedGerman-American Philosopher, Proposer of the Theory of the "Banality of Evil"🌷Beauvoir1908–1986 · born 35 years after Mill diedFrench Philosopher, Founder of Existentialist Feminism☀️Camus1913–1960 · born 40 years after Mill diedFrench Philosopher and Writer, Representative Figure of the Philosophy of the Absurd⚖️Rawls1921–2002 · born 48 years after Mill diedAmerican Political Philosopher, Author of A Theory of Justice👁️Foucault1926–1984 · born 53 years after Mill diedFrench Philosopher, Representative Figure of the Theory of Power and Knowledge🧩Derrida1930–2004 · born 57 years after Mill diedFrench Philosopher, Founder of Deconstruction