← Plato⏳ c. 427 BC–347 BC
💡 Who lived at the same time as Plato?
Every thinker below, drawn from the AGORA universe with attested dates, genuinely overlapped with Plato (c. 427 BC–347 BC) — they may never have met, but they breathed the air of the same age.
Contemporaries (overlapping lives) · 7
🕯️Diogenesc. 412 BC–323 BC · 65 years of overlapAncient Greek Philosopher, Representative Figure of the Cynic School📚Aristotle384 BC–322 BC · 37 years of overlapAncient Greek Philosopher, Founder of Logic and of the Lyceum⚙️Mozic. 470 BC–391 BC · 36 years of overlapThinker of the Warring States Period, Founder of the Mohist School❓Socratesc. 470 BC–399 BC · 28 years of overlapAncient Greek Philosopher, Founder of the "Socratic Method"🌱Menciusc. 372 BC–289 BC · 25 years of overlapThinker of the Warring States Period, Proposer of the Confucian "Innate Goodness of Human Nature"🦋Zhuangzic. 369 BC–286 BC · 22 years of overlapThinker of the Warring States Period, an Important Developer of Daoist Thought🌫️Pyrrhoc. 360 BC–270 BC · 13 years of overlapAncient Greek Philosopher, Founder of the Skeptic School
Near misses (within 60 years) · 6
🍇Epicurus341 BC–270 BC · born 6 years after Plato diedAncient Greek Philosopher, Founder of the Epicurean School🏛️Zenoc. 334 BC–262 BC · born 13 years after Plato diedAncient Greek Philosopher, Founder of the Stoic School📜Xunzic. 313 BC–238 BC · born 34 years after Plato diedThinker of the Late Warring States Period, Proposer of the Confucian "Innate Badness of Human Nature"🗿Xenophanesc. 570 BC–475 BC · died 48 years before Plato was bornAncient Greek Philosopher, an Early Critic of Anthropomorphic Conceptions of the Gods📖Confucius551 BC–479 BC · died 52 years before Plato was bornThinker of the Spring and Autumn Period, Founder of Confucianism☸️The Buddhac. 563 BC–483 BC · died 56 years before Plato was bornAncient Indian Thinker, Proposer of the Buddhist "Four Noble Truths"