Philosophy Periods

Ancient Greek philosophy extends from as far as the seventh century B.C. up until the beginning of the Roman Empire, in first century A.D. During this period five great philosophical traditions originated: the Platonist, the Aristotelian, the Stoic, the Epicurean, and the Skeptic.

Humanism was a cultural movement that developed in Europe starting from the second half of thirteen hundreds. It reached its peak in fourteen and fifteen hundreds, most remarkably in Florence (Italy), during that period which goes under the label of Renaissance. Humanism affected all the arts and sciences as well as politics, religion, and...

The nearly thousand years of the Middle Ages represents one of the most creative and diverse periods of Western philosophy, during which the foundations for most modern and contemporary philosophy were reshaped and strengthened.

Enlightenment or Age of Reason was a relatively short and influential movement flourished in seventeenth hundreds, promoted especially by an elite of intellectuals who aimed to improve human condition and the managing of civic society through the stark use of reason as opposed to faith or passions.

Modern Japanese philosophy comprises one of the most innovative terrains for philosophical thinking in modern world, largely developed in contrast with Western canons, as for example with the Kyoto School of philosophy.

Sometimes regarded as synonym with cultural relativism, post-modernism is an intellectual movement aiming at departing from the modernist reaction to the traditional Western canons in literature, visual art, music, architecture, religion, and social organization.