← Socrates⏳ c. 470 BC–399 BC
❓ Who lived at the same time as Socrates?
Every thinker below, drawn from the AGORA universe with attested dates, genuinely overlapped with Socrates (c. 470 BC–399 BC) — they may never have met, but they breathed the air of the same age.
Contemporaries (overlapping lives) · 3
⚙️Mozic. 470 BC–391 BC · 71 years of overlapThinker of the Warring States Period, Founder of the Mohist School💡Platoc. 427 BC–347 BC · 28 years of overlapAncient Greek Philosopher, Proposer of the Theory of Forms, Founder of the Academy🕯️Diogenesc. 412 BC–323 BC · 13 years of overlapAncient Greek Philosopher, Representative Figure of the Cynic School
Near misses (within 60 years) · 9
🗿Xenophanesc. 570 BC–475 BC · died 5 years before Socrates was bornAncient Greek Philosopher, an Early Critic of Anthropomorphic Conceptions of the Gods📖Confucius551 BC–479 BC · died 9 years before Socrates was bornThinker of the Spring and Autumn Period, Founder of Confucianism☸️The Buddhac. 563 BC–483 BC · died 13 years before Socrates was bornAncient Indian Thinker, Proposer of the Buddhist "Four Noble Truths"📚Aristotle384 BC–322 BC · born 15 years after Socrates diedAncient Greek Philosopher, Founder of Logic and of the Lyceum📐Pythagorasc. 570 BC–495 BC · died 25 years before Socrates was bornAncient Greek Philosopher and Mathematician, Proposer of the Doctrine "All Is Number"🌱Menciusc. 372 BC–289 BC · born 27 years after Socrates diedThinker of the Warring States Period, Proposer of the Confucian "Innate Goodness of Human Nature"🦋Zhuangzic. 369 BC–286 BC · born 30 years after Socrates diedThinker of the Warring States Period, an Important Developer of Daoist Thought🌫️Pyrrhoc. 360 BC–270 BC · born 39 years after Socrates diedAncient Greek Philosopher, Founder of the Skeptic School🍇Epicurus341 BC–270 BC · born 58 years after Socrates diedAncient Greek Philosopher, Founder of the Epicurean School