← Schopenhauer⏳ 1788–1860
🌑 Who lived at the same time as Schopenhauer?
Every thinker below, drawn from the AGORA universe with attested dates, genuinely overlapped with Schopenhauer (1788–1860) — they may never have met, but they breathed the air of the same age.
Contemporaries (overlapping lives) · 7
⚖️Mill1806–1873 · 54 years of overlapEnglish Philosopher, Important Representative of Utilitarianism and Liberalism🔢Bentham1748–1832 · 44 years of overlapEnglish Philosopher, Founder of Utilitarian Ethics🌀Hegel1770–1831 · 43 years of overlapGerman Philosopher, Builder of the System of the Dialectic and Absolute Spirit⛰️Kierkegaard1813–1855 · 42 years of overlapDanish Philosopher, Forerunner of Existentialist Philosophy📕Marx1818–1883 · 42 years of overlapGerman Philosopher, Proposer of Historical Materialism⏰Kant1724–1804 · 16 years of overlapGerman Philosopher, Founder of German Classical Philosophy, Proposer of the "Copernican Revolution"⚡Nietzsche1844–1900 · 16 years of overlapGerman Philosopher, Proposer of the "Will to Power" and the Revaluation of Values
Near misses (within 60 years) · 11
🖋️Voltaire1694–1778 · died 10 years before Schopenhauer was bornFrench Enlightenment Thinker, Spokesman for Rationalism and Religious Tolerance📖Rousseau1712–1778 · died 10 years before Schopenhauer was bornFrench Enlightenment Thinker, Important Representative of Social Contract Theory and the "State of Nature"🌊Hume1711–1776 · died 12 years before Schopenhauer was bornScottish Philosopher, the Great Synthesizer of Empiricist Skepticism📐Russell1872–1970 · born 12 years after Schopenhauer diedEnglish Philosopher and Mathematician, One of the Founders of Analytic Philosophy🗣️Wittgenstein1889–1951 · born 29 years after Schopenhauer diedAustrian-Born Philosopher, Proposer of the "Picture Theory" and "Language Games" in the Philosophy of Language🌲Heidegger1889–1976 · born 29 years after Schopenhauer diedGerman Philosopher, Important Representative of Existentialism and Phenomenology🔬Popper1902–1994 · born 42 years after Schopenhauer diedAustrian-Born Philosopher, Proposer of Falsificationist Philosophy of Science🚬Sartre1905–1980 · born 45 years after Schopenhauer diedFrench Philosopher, Proposer of the Existentialist "Existence Precedes Essence"🕊️Hannah Arendt1906–1975 · born 46 years after Schopenhauer diedGerman-American Philosopher, Proposer of the Theory of the "Banality of Evil"🌷Beauvoir1908–1986 · born 48 years after Schopenhauer diedFrench Philosopher, Founder of Existentialist Feminism☀️Camus1913–1960 · born 53 years after Schopenhauer diedFrench Philosopher and Writer, Representative Figure of the Philosophy of the Absurd