Homer (Late 8th or early 7th century BC)
Hesiod (between 750 – 650 BC) Theogony
Thales of Miletus (626/623 – 548/545 BC, Ionian/Milesian School, Naturalism)
Anaximander (610 – 546 BC, Ionian/Milesian School, Naturalism)
Pythagoras (570 – 495 BC, Italian/Pythagorean)
Xenophanes (570 – 475 BC, Italian)
Heraclitus (535 – 475 BC, Ionian/Ephesian)
Parmenides (515 – 450? BC, Italian/Eleatic)
Zeno of Elea (495 – 430 BC, Italian/Eleatic)
Empedocles (494 – 434 BC, Pluralist)
Anaxagoras (510 – 428 BC, Pluralist, Natural Philosophy)
Protagoras (490 – 420 BC, Sophist)
Democritus (460 – 370 BC, Atomism, Materialism)
Socrates (470 – 399 BC)
399 BC – Socrates was executed by drinking hemlock. His pupil Plato watched it.
387 BC – Plato (428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC) founded the Academy.
335 BC – Aristotle (384 – 322 BC) founded Lyceum.
Pyrrho (360 – 270 BC, Pyrrhonism, Skepticism)
Epicurus (341 – 270 BC, Epicureanism)
Zeno of Citium (334 – 262 BC, founder of the Greek Stoic school)
Cicero (106 – 43 BC, Academic Skepticism, Roman Stoicism)
Lucretius (99 – 55 BC, Epicureanism, Atomism, Materialism)
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC – AD 65, Roman Stoicism)
Epictetus (50 – 135, Roman Stoicism)
Marcus Aurelius (121 – 180, Roman Stoicism)
Plotinus (205 – 280, Neoplatonism) The Enneads
400 – Confessions by Augustine of Hippo (354 – 430, Augustinianism, Neoplatonism)
413 – 427 – City of God by Augustine
523 – The Consolation of Philosophy by Flavius Boethius (480? – 524, Neoplatonism)
1265 – 1273 – Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas (1224 – 1274, Scholasticism)
1513 – The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli (Renaissance philosophy, Classical realism, Republicanism)
1517 – Ninety-five Theses by Martin Luther (1483 – 1546)
1520 – On the Freedom of a Christian by Luther
1580 – Essais by Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592, Renaissance humanism, Renaissance skepticism)
1618 – Novum Organum by Francis Bacon (1561 – 1626, Renaissance philosophy, Empiricism)
1637 – Discourse on the Method by René Descartes (1596 – 1650, Continental rationalism)
1641 – Meditation on the First Philosophy by Descartes
1651 – Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes (1588 – 1679, Social contract, Classic realism, Empiricism)
1670 – Pansées by Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662, Jansenism, Christian humanism)
1677 – Ethics by Baruch Spinoza (1632 -1677, Continental rationalism, Monism)
1689 – A Letter Concerning Toleration, Two Treatises of Government by John Locke (1632 – 1704, Empiricism, Social contract, Liberalism)
1690 – An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by Locke
1709 – An Essay towards a New Theory of Vision by George Berkeley (1685 – 1753, Empiricism, Subjective idealism)
1710 – A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge by Berkeley
1714 – Monadology by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646 – 1716, Continental rationalism, Relationalism)
1748 – An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume (1711 – 1776, Empiricism, Skepticism)
1750 – Discourse on the Arts and Sciences by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 – 1778, Enlightenment, Social contract, Romanticism)
1754 – Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men by Rousseau
1755 – Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804, German idealism, Transcendental idealism) began lecturing at the University of Königsberg.
1762 – The Social Contract, or Principles of Political Right by Rousseau
1763 – Treatise on Tolerance by Voltaire (1694 – 1778, Lumières, Philosophes, Deism)
1770 – Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804) became a professor of the University of Königsberg.
1780 – An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation by Jeremy Bentham (1748 – 1832, Utilitarianism)
1781 – Critique of Pure Reason (1st edition) by Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804)
1788 – Critique of Practical Reason by Kant
1790 – Critique of Judgment by Kant
1794/1795 – Foundations of the Science of Knowledge by Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762 – 1814, German idealism)
1800 – System of Transcendental Idealism by Friedrich Schelling (1775 – 1854, German idealism, Natural philosophy)
1807 – The Phenomenology of Spirit by Georg Hegel (1770 – 1831, German idealism, Absolute idealism)
1809 – Philosophical Inquiries into the Essence of Human Freedom by Schelling (Identity philosophy)
1817 – Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences by Hegel (German idealism, Absolute idealism)
1830 – 1842 Course of Positive Philosophy by Auguste Comte (1798 – 1857, Positivism)
1831 – Hegel died.
1841 – Schelling returned to the lecture on the Berlin University. (Jena Romanticism, Positive philosophy)
1844 – The World as Will and Representation by Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 – 1860, Metaphysical voluntarism, Philosophical pessimism)
1848 – Manifesto of the Communist Party by Karl Marx (1813 – 1883) & Friedrich Engels (1820 – 1895)
1849 – The Sickness Unto Death by Søren Kierkegaard (1813 – 1855, Christian existentialism)
1859 – On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (1809 – 1882, Science of evolution)
1862 – First Principles by Herbert Spencer (1820 – 1903, Positivism, Evolutionism, Social Darwinism)
1867 – Capital. Volume I by Karl Marx (Historical materialism, Marxism)
1872 – The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 – 1900, Philosophy of life, Anti-nihilism, Perspectivism)
1884 – The Foundations of Arithmetic by Gottlob Frege (1848 – 1925, Analytic philosophy, Philosophy of mathematics, Mathematical logic)
1885 – Capital. Volume II by Karl Marx
1886 – Beyond Good and Evil by Nietzsche
1900 – The Philosophy of Money by Georg Simmel (1858 – 1918, Philosophy of life, Neo-Kantianism)
1911 – An Inquiry into the Good by Kitaro Nishida (1870 – 1945, Kyoto School, Meontology)
1913 – Ideas: General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology by Edmund Husserl (1859 – 1938, Phenomenology)
1916 – Husserl transferred to the University of Freiburg. Heidegger met Husserl and during 1920 and 1923, Heidegger was served as an assistant of Husserl.
1921 – Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 – 1951, Philosophy of language, Correspondence theory of truth, Logical positivism)
1927 – Being and Time by Martin Heidegger (1889 – 1976, Existentialism, Existential phenomenology)
1928 – Heidegger became a Professor of the University of Freiburg, successor to Husserl.
1929 – Process and Reality by Alfred North Whitehead (1861 – 1947, Process philosophy, Process theology)
1933 – Heidegger was elected rector of the University of Freiburg in April 1933, but he resigned in April 1934.
1935 – The Logic of Scientific Discovery by Karl Popper (1902 – 1994, Analytic philosophy, Critical rationalism)
1936 – The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology by Husserl
1942 – The Structure of Behavior by Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908 – 1961, Phenomenology, Embodied phenomenology)
1944 – Dialectic of Enlightenment by Theodor Adorno (1903 – 1969) & Max Horkheimer (1895 – 1973) (Frankfurt School, Critical theory)
1945 – The Open Society and Its Enemies by Popper
Phenomenology of Perception by Merleau-Ponty
1947 – Introduction to the Reading of Hegel by Alexandre Kojève (1902 – 1968, Neo-Hegelianism, Existential phenomenology)
1949 – The Need for Roots by Simone Weil (1909 – 1943, Christian socialism, Modern Platonism)
1953 – Philosophical Investigations by Wittgenstein (Philosophy of language, Ordinary language philosophy)
Introduction to Metaphysics by Heidegger
1954 – The Question Concerning Technology by Heidegger
1958 – The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt (1906 – 1975, Political philosophy)
1959 – Discourse On Thinking by Heidegger
1960 – Truth and Method by Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900 – 2002, Hermeneutics, Hermeneutic phenomenology)
1961 – Totality and Infinity by Emmanuel Levinas (1906 – 1995, Phenomenology, Jewish philosophy)
1962 – The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere by Jürgen Habermas (1929 – , Frankfurt School)
1965 – For Marx by Louis Althusser (1918 – 1990, Structural Marxism)
1966 – The Order of Things by Michel Foucault (1926- 1984, Structuralism)
1967 – Of Grammatology, Speech and Phenomena by Jacques Derrida (1930 – 2004, Post-structuralism, Deconstruction)
1972 – Anti-Oedipus by Gilles Deleuze (1925 – 1995) & Félix Guattari (1930 – 1992) (Post-structuralism, Postmodernism)
1980 – A Thousand Plateaus by Deleuze & Guattari
1981 – The Theory of Communicative Action by Habermas