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Single Idea 11560

[filed under theme 1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 3. Earlier European Philosophy / a. Earlier European chronology ]

Full Idea

Alfarabi: In around 910 CE Al-Farabi explained and expanded Aristotle for the Islamic world.

Gist of Idea

910 (roughly): Al-Farabi wrote Arabic commentaries on Aristotle

Source

PG (Db (chronology) [2030], 1910)

The 118 ideas from 'Db (chronology)'

11461 323 (roughly): Euclid wrote 'Elements', summarising all of geometry [PG]
11390 1000 (roughly): Upanishads written (in Sanskrit); religious and philosophical texts [PG]
11391 750 (roughly): the Book of Genesis written by Hebrew writers [PG]
11392 586: eclipse of the sun on the coast of modern Turkey was predicted by Thales of Miletus [PG]
11395 570: Anaximander flourished in Miletus [PG]
11396 563: the Buddha born in northern India [PG]
11398 540: Lao Tzu wrote 'Tao Te Ching', the basis of Taoism [PG]
11400 529: Pythagoras created his secretive community at Croton in Sicily [PG]
11403 500: Heraclitus flourishes at Ephesus, in modern Turkey [PG]
11404 496: Confucius travels widely, persuading rulers to be more moral [PG]
11408 472: Empedocles persuades his city (Acragas in Sicily) to become a democracy [PG]
11412 450 (roughly): Parmenides and Zeno visit Athens from Italy [PG]
11414 445: Protagoras helps write laws for the new colony of Thurii [PG]
11417 436 (roughly): Anaxagoras is tried for impiety, and expelled from Athens [PG]
11421 427: Gorgias visited Athens as ambassador for Leontini [PG]
11425 399: Socrates executed (with Plato absent through ill health) [PG]
11432 387 (roughly): Plato returned to Athens, and founded the Academy [PG]
11433 387 (roughly): Aristippus the Elder founder a hedonist school at Cyrene [PG]
11440 367: the teenaged Aristotle came to study at the Academy [PG]
11443 360 (roughly): Diogenes of Sinope lives in a barrel in central Athens [PG]
11445 347: death of Plato [PG]
11454 343: Aristotle becomes tutor to 13 year old Alexander (the Great) [PG]
11456 335: Arisotle founded his school at the Lyceum in Athens [PG]
11459 330 (roughly): Chuang Tzu wrote his Taoist book [PG]
11465 322: Aristotle retired to Chalcis, and died there [PG]
11468 307 (roughly): Epicurus founded his school at the Garden in Athens [PG]
11470 301 (roughly): Zeno of Citium founded Stoicism at the Stoa Poikile in Athens [PG]
11483 261: Cleanthes replaced Zeno as head of the Stoa [PG]
11486 229 (roughly): Chrysippus replaced Cleanthes has head of the Stoa [PG]
11492 157 (roughly): Carneades became head of the Academy [PG]
11509 85: most philosophical activity moves to Alexandria [PG]
11513 78: Cicero visited the stoic school on Rhodes [PG]
11516 60 (roughly): Lucretius wrote his Latin poem on epicureanism [PG]
11528 65: Seneca forced to commit suicide by Nero [PG]
11531 80: the discourses of the stoic Epictetus are written down [PG]
11535 170 (roughly): Marcus Aurelius wrote his private stoic meditations [PG]
11537 -200 (roughly): Sextus Empiricus wrote a series of books on scepticism [PG]
11541 263: Porphyry began to study with Plotinus in Rome [PG]
11545 310: Christianity became the official religion of the Roman empire [PG]
11549 387: Ambrose converts Augustine to Christianity [PG]
11555 523: Boethius imprisoned at Pavia, and begins to write [PG]
11557 529: the emperor Justinian closes all the philosophy schools in Athens [PG]
11558 622 (roughly): Mohammed writes the Koran [PG]
11559 642: Arabs close the philosophy schools in Alexandria [PG]
11560 910 (roughly): Al-Farabi wrote Arabic commentaries on Aristotle [PG]
11562 1015 (roughly): Ibn Sina (Avicenna) writes a book on Aristotle [PG]
11564 1090: Anselm publishes his proof of the existence of God [PG]
11566 1115: Abelard is the chief logic teacher in Paris [PG]
11573 1166: Ibn Rushd (Averroes) wrote extensive commentaries on Aristotle [PG]
11581 1266: Aquinas began writing 'Summa Theologica' [PG]
11586 1280: after his death, the teaching of Aquinas becomes official Dominican doctrine [PG]
11591 1328: William of Ockham decides the Pope is a heretic, and moves to Munich [PG]
17916 1347: the Church persecutes philosophical heresies [PG]
11593 1470: Marsilio Ficino founds a Platonic Academy in Florence [PG]
11596 1513: Machiavelli wrote 'The Prince' [PG]
11599 1543: Copernicus publishes his heliocentric view of the solar system [PG]
11601 1580: Montaigne publishes his essays [PG]
11607 1600: Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake in Rome [PG]
11613 1619: Descartes's famous day of meditation inside a stove [PG]
11614 1620: Bacon publishes 'Novum Organum' [PG]
11619 1633: Galileo convicted of heresy by the Inquisition [PG]
11623 1641: Descartes publishes his 'Meditations' [PG]
11626 1650: death of Descartes, in Stockholm [PG]
11627 1651: Hobbes publishes 'Leviathan' [PG]
11633 1662: the Port Royal Logic is published [PG]
11634 1665: Spinoza writes his 'Ethics' [PG]
11643 1676: Leibniz settled as librarian to the Duke of Brunswick [PG]
11649 1687: Newton publishes his 'Principia Mathematica' [PG]
11652 1690: Locke publishes his 'Essay' [PG]
11654 1697: Bayle publishes his 'Dictionary' [PG]
11659 1713: Berkeley publishes his 'Three Dialogues' [PG]
11666 1734: Voltaire publishes his 'Philosophical Letters' [PG]
11667 1739: Hume publishes his 'Treatise' [PG]
11675 1762: Rousseau publishes his 'Social Contract' [PG]
11682 1781: Kant publishes his 'Critique of Pure Reason' [PG]
11683 1785: Reid publishes his essays defending common sense [PG]
11687 1798: the French Revolution [PG]
11694 1807: Hegel publishes his 'Phenomenology of Spirit' [PG]
11701 1818: Schopenhauer publishes his 'World as Will and Idea' [PG]
11710 1840: Kierkegaard is writing extensively in Copenhagen [PG]
11713 1843: Mill publishes his 'System of Logic' [PG]
11715 1848: Marx and Engels publis the Communist Manifesto [PG]
11717 1859: Darwin publishes his 'Origin of the Species' [PG]
11721 1861: Mill publishes 'Utilitarianism' [PG]
11724 1867: Marx begins publishing 'Das Kapital' [PG]
11733 1879: Peirce taught for five years at Johns Hopkins University [PG]
17907 1879: Frege invents predicate logic [PG]
17909 1892: Frege's essay 'Sense and Reference' [PG]
17908 1884: Frege publishes his 'Foundations of Arithmetic' [PG]
11735 1885: Nietzsche completed 'Thus Spake Zarathustra' [PG]
17911 1888: Dedekind publishes axioms for arithmetic [PG]
11740 1890: James published 'Principles of Psychology' [PG]
11742 1895 (roughly): Freud developed theories of the unconscious [PG]
11745 1900: Husserl began developing Phenomenology [PG]
11746 1903: Moore published 'Principia Ethica' [PG]
11747 1904: Dewey became professor at Columbia University [PG]
17910 1908: Zermelo publishes axioms for set theory [PG]
11752 1910: Russell and Whitehead begin publishing 'Principia Mathematica' [PG]
11756 1912: Russell meets Wittgenstein in Cambridge [PG]
11762 1921: Wittgenstein's 'Tractatus' published [PG]
11765 1927: Heidegger's 'Being and Time' published [PG]
11768 1930: Frank Ramsey dies at 27 [PG]
11770 1931: Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems [PG]
11773 1933: Tarski's theory of truth [PG]
11783 1942: Camus published 'The Myth of Sisyphus' [PG]
11784 1943: Sartre's 'Being and Nothingness' [PG]
11787 1945: Merleau-Ponty's 'Phenomenology of Perception' [PG]
17918 1947: Carnap published 'Meaning and Necessity' [PG]
11794 1950: Quine's essay 'Two Dogmas of Empiricism' [PG]
17917 1953: Wittgenstein's 'Philosophical Investigations' [PG]
17919 1956: Place proposed mind-brain identity [PG]
11804 1962: Kuhn's 'Structure of Scientific Revolutions' [PG]
17921 1967: Putnam proposed functionalism of the mind [PG]
11808 1971: Rawls's 'A Theory of Justice' [PG]
11810 1972: Kripke publishes 'Naming and Necessity' [PG]
11813 1975: Singer publishes 'Animal Rights' [PG]
17920 1975: Putnam published his Twin Earth example [PG]
11820 1986: David Lewis publishes 'On the Plurality of Worlds' [PG]