← Voltaire⏳ 1694–1778
🖋️ Who lived at the same time as Voltaire?
Every thinker below, drawn from the AGORA universe with attested dates, genuinely overlapped with Voltaire (1694–1778) — they may never have met, but they breathed the air of the same age.
Contemporaries (overlapping lives) · 7
📖Rousseau1712–1778 · 66 years of overlapFrench Enlightenment Thinker, Important Representative of Social Contract Theory and the "State of Nature"🌊Hume1711–1776 · 65 years of overlapScottish Philosopher, the Great Synthesizer of Empiricist Skepticism⏰Kant1724–1804 · 54 years of overlapGerman Philosopher, Founder of German Classical Philosophy, Proposer of the "Copernican Revolution"🔢Bentham1748–1832 · 30 years of overlapEnglish Philosopher, Founder of Utilitarian Ethics➕Leibniz1646–1716 · 22 years of overlapGerman Philosopher and Mathematician, Proposer of the Monadology and the "Best of All Possible Worlds"📄Locke1632–1704 · 10 years of overlapEnglish Philosopher, Founder of Empiricism and Liberal Political Philosophy🌀Hegel1770–1831 · 8 years of overlapGerman Philosopher, Builder of the System of the Dialectic and Absolute Spirit
Near misses (within 60 years) · 8
🌑Schopenhauer1788–1860 · born 10 years after Voltaire diedGerman Philosopher, Representative of Voluntarist Pessimism🐉Hobbes1588–1679 · died 15 years before Voltaire was bornEnglish Philosopher, Author of Social Contract Theory and Leviathan🔮Spinoza1632–1677 · died 17 years before Voltaire was bornDutch Philosopher, Representative of Pantheism and Rationalist Ethics⚖️Mill1806–1873 · born 28 years after Voltaire diedEnglish Philosopher, Important Representative of Utilitarianism and Liberalism🎲Pascal1623–1662 · died 32 years before Voltaire was bornFrench Mathematician and Philosopher, Proposer of "Pascal’s Wager"⛰️Kierkegaard1813–1855 · born 35 years after Voltaire diedDanish Philosopher, Forerunner of Existentialist Philosophy📕Marx1818–1883 · born 40 years after Voltaire diedGerman Philosopher, Proposer of Historical Materialism🔍Descartes1596–1650 · died 44 years before Voltaire was bornFrench Philosopher and Mathematician, Proposer of "I Think, Therefore I Am," Father of Modern Philosophy