← Xunzi⏳ c. 313 BC–238 BC
📜 Who lived at the same time as Xunzi?
Every thinker below, drawn from the AGORA universe with attested dates, genuinely overlapped with Xunzi (c. 313 BC–238 BC) — they may never have met, but they breathed the air of the same age.
Contemporaries (overlapping lives) · 6
🏛️Zenoc. 334 BC–262 BC · 51 years of overlapAncient Greek Philosopher, Founder of the Stoic School🌫️Pyrrhoc. 360 BC–270 BC · 43 years of overlapAncient Greek Philosopher, Founder of the Skeptic School🍇Epicurus341 BC–270 BC · 43 years of overlapAncient Greek Philosopher, Founder of the Epicurean School⚖️Han Feizic. 280 BC–233 BC · 42 years of overlapThinker of the Late Warring States Period, the Great Synthesizer of Legalist Thought🦋Zhuangzic. 369 BC–286 BC · 27 years of overlapThinker of the Warring States Period, an Important Developer of Daoist Thought🌱Menciusc. 372 BC–289 BC · 24 years of overlapThinker of the Warring States Period, Proposer of the Confucian "Innate Goodness of Human Nature"
Near misses (within 60 years) · 3
📚Aristotle384 BC–322 BC · died 9 years before Xunzi was bornAncient Greek Philosopher, Founder of Logic and of the Lyceum🕯️Diogenesc. 412 BC–323 BC · died 10 years before Xunzi was bornAncient Greek Philosopher, Representative Figure of the Cynic School💡Platoc. 427 BC–347 BC · died 34 years before Xunzi was bornAncient Greek Philosopher, Proposer of the Theory of Forms, Founder of the Academy