Great Ideas of Philosophy

Timeline800–600 B.C.E. ................................ Morality tales, such as the Hindu Upanishads, appear in many settledcommunities.~750 B.C.E. ...................................... Homer composes The Iliad and The Odyssey.700 B.C.E. ........................................ Colonization of Sicily, the east coast of Italy, and islands off the coast of AsiaMinor begins, primarily to grow produce that can be sent back to mainlandGreece.6 th century B.C.E. ............................. Schools of critical inquiry emerge in ancient Greece. Parmenides and other pre-Socratic philosophers emerge. Empirkoi, or empirical practitioners whofollowed Hippocrates’s philosophy, make up the dominant school of Greekmedicine.570 B.C.E. ........................................ Birth of Pythagoras.551 B.C.E. ........................................ Birth of Confucius.4 th century B.C.E. ............................. Isocrates composes the Panegyricus, a work that raises the question of whetherphilosophy is something that just the Greeks do.479 B.C.E. ........................................ Death of Confucius.469 B.C.E. ........................................ Birth of Hippocrates.469 B.C.E. ........................................ Birth of Socrates.446 B.C.E. ........................................ Birth of Isocrates.427 B.C.E. ........................................ Birth of Plato.399 B.C.E. ........................................ Death of Hippocrates.399 B.C.E. ........................................ Death of Socrates.384 B.C.E. ........................................ Birth of Aristotle.360 B.C.E. ........................................ Plato writes his dialogue The Republic, generally considered to be thefoundational work in political science. It addresses the question of how a man’svirtue may be measured.347 B.C.E. ........................................ Death of Plato.338 B.C.E. ........................................ Death of Isocrates.322 B.C.E. ........................................ Death of Aristotle.300 B.C.E. ........................................ Stoic philosophy develops.106 B.C.E. ........................................ Birth of Marcus Tullius Cicero.43 B.C.E. .......................................... Death of Marcus Tullius Cicero.1 st century C.E.................................. “Hellenized” Jews build Christianity.354 C.E. ........................................... Birth of St. Augustine.397 C.E. ........................................... St. Augustine publishes The Confessions, a personal, introspective work ofpsychology.430 C.E. ........................................... Death of St. Augustine.476 C.E. ........................................... Fall of Rome.632 C.E. ........................................... According to the teachings of Islam, the Prophet Muhammad had revealed tohim a divine message that would be faithfully recorded in the Koran.©2004 The Teaching Company Limited Partnership 35