← Zhu Xi⏳ 1130–1200

🀄 Who lived at the same time as Zhu Xi?

Every thinker below, drawn from the AGORA universe with attested dates, genuinely overlapped with Zhu Xi (1130–1200) — they may never have met, but they breathed the air of the same age.

Contemporaries (overlapping lives) · 2

📘Ibn Rushd1126–1198 · 68 years of overlapAndalusian Philosopher, the Great Synthesizer of the Tradition of Aristotelian Commentary 📙Maimonides1138–1204 · 62 years of overlapJewish Philosopher, the Great Synthesizer of Medieval Jewish Scholastic Philosophy

Near misses (within 60 years) · 2

🕌Al-Ghazalic. 1058–1111 · died 19 years before Zhu Xi was bornPersian Philosopher and Theologian, an Important Critic of Rationalist Philosophy Within Islam 📚Thomas Aquinasc. 1225–1274 · born 25 years after Zhu Xi diedGreat Synthesizer of Scholastic Philosophy, Fusing Aristotelian Philosophy and Christian Theology