Chronological index
Thinkers
A history that begins in parallel. Dates are approximate where traditions or texts resist exact chronology.
Period
Before 500 BCE
India
- Yājñavalkya
- Mahāvīra
- The Buddha
China
- Confucius
- Laozi
Greece & Ionia
- Thales
- Anaximander
- Heraclitus
- Parmenides
Period
500 to 200 BCE
India
- Pāṇini
- Kauṭilya
China
- Mozi
- Mencius
- Zhuangzi
- Xunzi
Greece
- Socrates
- Plato
- Aristotle
- Epicurus