Western ancient times: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle;

Western Middle Ages: Augustine and Aquinas

Western modern times:

Britain: Bacon, Hobbes, Locke, Becquerel, Hume, Spencer; Russell, Wittgenstein;

France: Descartes, Leibniz, Pascal, Spinoza, Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau, Comte, Pagson, Sartre, Foucault-;

Germany: Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Feuerbach, Marx, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger; Fromm, Marcuse, Althusser

America: James, Dewey, Popper-;

The fifteen most famous philosophers: Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Descartes, Locke, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Russell, Wittgenstein, Husserl, Heidegger and Sartre.

1. Plato: the most outstanding philosopher in ancient Greece.

2. Aristotle: a master of ancient Greek philosophy and science.

3. Bacon: the first person who put forward experimental methods and induction and entered modern times.

4. Descartes: the founder of mainland rationalism determines the value of rationality.

5. Locke: The most systematic exposition of empiricism philosophy.

6. Hume: Reveal the basic contradiction of modern philosophy.

7. Kant: a master of philosophy, who completed the Copernican revolution of philosophy and changed from ontology to epistemology.

8. Hegel: a master of dialectics, comprehensively summarizing modern philosophy.

9. Marx put forward dialectical materialism and practical philosophy, which greatly influenced history.

10. Nietzsche: His voluntarism superman philosophy is deeply shocking.

1 1. Russell: the authority of logical positivism, a learned man.

12. Wittgenstein: Philosophical genius also belongs to logical positivism.

Husserl: Master of Phenomenology.

14. Heidegger: a master of existentialism.

15. Sartre, the master of existentialism, has an important influence on the ethos of the times.