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Metaphysics

Thinkers and essays gathered around this school of thought.

10Thinkers
2Thoughts
33Major Works
15Archive Entries
Ancient · ModernTime Period
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Baruch Spinoza

Explores God or Nature, freedom, emotion, ethics, necessity, and human flourishing through geometric reasoning.

“All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.”
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A history of Metaphysics

c. 428/427–348/347 BCE

Plato

Ancient

traditionally 6th century BCE

Laozi

Ancient

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c. 570–495 BCE

Pythagoras

Connects number, harmony, proportion, music, geometry, and the search for hidden order in reality.

Ancient Philosophy · Mathematics · Metaphysics
1906–1978

Kurt Gödel

Explores incompleteness, formal systems, proof, limits of logic, and the boundaries of mathematical certainty.

Logic · Mathematics · Metaphysics
1889–1976

Martin Heidegger

Examines being, time, technology, mortality, authenticity, and human existence through deep phenomenological inquiry.

Existentialism · Metaphysics · Phenomenology
1724–1804

Immanuel Kant

Structures thought around reason, duty, autonomy, experience, judgment, and the limits of what humans can know.

Ethics · Metaphysics · Modern Philosophy
1770–1831

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Interprets history, consciousness, contradiction, freedom, and social institutions through dialectical development.

Metaphysics · Modern Philosophy · Political Philosophy
980–1037

Ibn Sina

Connects metaphysics, medicine, logic, psychology, and the nature of being through rigorous Islamic Golden Age reasoning.

Islamic Philosophy · Medieval Philosophy · Metaphysics
1596–1650

René Descartes

Uses radical doubt, clarity, mind-body questions, and rational foundations to examine knowledge and certainty.

Metaphysics · Modern Philosophy · Rationalism
1632–1677

Baruch Spinoza

Explores God or Nature, freedom, emotion, ethics, necessity, and human flourishing through geometric reasoning.

Ethics · Metaphysics · Modern Philosophy
c. 428/427–348/347 BCE

Plato

Explores ideal forms, justice, knowledge, education, and the structure of the soul through layered philosophical dialogue.

Ancient Philosophy · Metaphysics · Political Philosophy
traditionally 6th century BCE

Laozi

Approaches life through Dao, simplicity, non-forcing, humility, paradox, and alignment with natural patterns.

Ancient Philosophy · Eastern Philosophy · Metaphysics
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