List of philosophers born in the 1st through 10th centuries
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Philosophers born in the 1st to 10th centuries (and others important in the history of philosophy), listed alphabetically:
- Note: This list has a minimal criterion for inclusion and the relevance to philosophy of some individuals on the list is disputed.
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- Abbo of Fleury, (c. 950 – 1004)[b]
- Abd al-Jabbar ibn Ahmad, (c. 935 – 1025)[b]
- Abd al-Salam al-Jubba'i, (died 933)[b]
- Abhinavagupta, (fl. c. 975 – 1025)[e]
- Abū Ḥanīfa, (c. 699 – 767)[b]
- Abu al-Hudhayl, (c. 750 – 840/850)[b]
- Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi, (787 – 886)[b]
- Abu Said Al-Sirafi, (died 979)[b]
- Abu Tammam, (859 – 937/947)[b]
- Abu Zayd al-Balkhi, (c. 850 – 934)[b]
- Adi Shankara, (c. 788 – 820)[b]
- Aedesius, (died 355)
- Agrippa the Sceptic, (1st/2nd century)[e]
- Albinus, (c. 130)
- Alcinous, (2nd century)[e]
- Alcuin, (c. 740 – 804)[b]
- Alexander of Aphrodisias, (2nd century)[a][e][f]
- Alhazen (or Ibn al-Haytham), (965 – c. 1040)[b]
- Ali ibn Abbas al-Majusi, (died c. 982)[b]
- Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī (December 973 – May 1057 CE)
- Ambrose, (c. 340 – 397)[a]
- Abu'l Hasan Muhammad Ibn Yusuf al-'Amiri, (died 992)[e][b]
- Ammonius Hermiae, (5th century)[e][f]
- Ammonius Saccas, (3rd century)[a]
- Anandavardhana, (820 – 890)
- Apollonius of Tyana, (2 – 98)
- Apuleius, (c. 123 – c. 180)[e]
- Aristides, (fl. 2nd century)
- Arius, (256 – 336)
- Al-Ash'ari, (874 – 936)[b]
- Asanga, (c. 4th century)
- Aspasius, (c. 100 – 150)
- Athanasius of Alexandria, (298 – 373)[a]
- Augustine of Hippo, (354 – 430)[a][c][d][e][f]
- Marcus Aurelius, (121 – 180)[a][c][d][e]
- Avicenna (or Ibn Sina), (980 – 1037)[a][b][c][d][e]
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- Al-Baqillani (died 1013)[b]
- Basilides, (c. 117 – 138)[a]
- Bede (672/3–735)[b]
- Bhartrhari, (5th century)[e]
- Bodhidharma, (c. 440 – 528)
- Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, (480 – 524 or 525)[a][c][d][e][f]
- Buddhaghosa, (5th century)[a]
- Burchard of Worms (c. 950 – 1025)[b]
C edit
- Calcidius, (4th century)[e]
- Candidus Wizo, (fl. 793 – 803)[b]
- Candrakirti, (born c. 600)
- Cebes of Cyzicus, (2nd century)
- Celsus of Alexandria, (2nd century)[a][e]
- Candrakirti, (7th century)
- Cheng Hsuan (or Zheng Xuan), (127 – 200)[e]
- Chih Tun (or Zhi Dun), (314 – 366)[e]
- Chrysanthius, (4th century)
- Clement of Alexandria, (2nd – 3rd century)[a][e]
- Cleomedes, (2nd century)[e]
- Cyril of Alexandria, (376 – 444)
D edit
- Damascius, (c. 462 – 540)[a][e]
- David the Invincible, (late 6th century)[f]
- David ibn Merwan al-Mukkamas, (9th century)[b]
- Dawud ibn Khalaf, (815/8 – 874)[b]
- Demetrius the Cynic, (1st century)
- Dharmakirti, (c. 7th century)[a][e]
- Dignaga, (c. 480 – c. 540)[e]
- Diogenes Laërtius, (3rd century)[c][d][e]
- Diogenes of Oenoanda, (2nd century)[e]
- Dirar ibn 'Amr, (c. 728 – 815)[b]
- Dunash ibn Tamim, (10th century)[b]
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G edit
- Gaius Musonius Rufus, (110 – 180)[e]
- Galen, (131 – 201)[a][c][d][e]
- Gaudapadacharya, (c. 7th century)
- Gerbert of Aurillac (or Pope Silvester II), (c. 950 – 1003)[e]
- Gottschalk of Orbais, (c. 805 – 868)[b]
- Pope Gregory I, (540 – 604)[a][c][d]
- Gregory of Nyssa, (c. 335 – 398)[a]
H edit
- Han Yu, (768 – 824)[a][e]
- Heiric of Auxerre, (841 – 876/7)[b]
- Hierocles the Stoic, (2nd century)[e]
- Himerius, (315 – 386)
- Hincmar, (806 – 882)[b]
- Ho Yen, (190 – 249)[a]
- Hsi K'ang, (223 – 262)[a]
- Hunayn ibn Ishaq, (808 – 877)[b]
- Hypatia of Alexandria, (370 – 415)[a][e]
I edit
- Iamblichus, (c. 245 – c. 325)[e]
- Yahya ibn Adi, (893 – 974)[e]
- Ibn ar-Rawandi, (c. 910)[e]
- Ibn Furak, (c. 941 – 1015)[b]
- Ahmad ibn Hanbal, (780–855)[b]
- Ibn Hazm, (994 – 1069)[b][e]
- Ibn al-Khammar, (942 – c. 1030)[b]
- Ibn Masarra, (883 – 931)[b][e]
- Ibn Miskawayh, (940 – 1030)[a][b][e]
- Abd-Allāh Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ, (c. 720 – c. 756)[b]
- Ibn al-Rawandi, (died c. 910)[b]
- Ibn al-Tayyib, (died 1043)[b]
- Ikhwan al-Safa', (10th century)[b]
- 'Isa ibn Zur'a, (943 – 1008)[b]
- Issac Ben Solomon Israeli, (c. 850 – 950)[b][e][f]*
- Isidore of Seville, (c. 560 – 636)[b]
- Isvarakrsna, (5th century)
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- Jesus of Nazareth, (4 BC – AD 30)
- Jābir ibn Hayyān, (died c. 806–816)
- Jahm bin Safwan, (died 746)[b]
- Jayanta Bhatta, (c. 9th century)
- John of Damascus, (c. 676 – 749)[a][e]
- Juan Chi, (210 – 263)[a]
- Justinian I, (483 – 565)[e]
K edit
- Abd al-Masih ibn Ishaq al-Kindi, (9th/10th century)[b]
- Al-Kindi, (801 – 873)[a][b][c][d][e][f]*
- Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani, (died c. 1021)[b]
- Ko Hung, (4th century)[a]
- Kūkai, (774 – 835)[c][d][e]
- Kumārila Bhaṭṭa, (c. 7th century)
- Kundakunda, (c. 2nd century)
- Kuo Hsiang (or Guoxiang), (c. 312)[a]
L edit
- Li Ao, (722 – 841)[a]
- Linji Yixuan (or Lin Chi), (c. 810 – 867)[e]
- Longinus, (1st century)[a]
- Cassius Dionysius Longinus, (213 – 273)
- Lucian, (c. 120 – c. 180)[e]
- Lucius Annaeus Cornutus, (1st century)
M edit
- Macrobius Ambrosius Theodosius, (fl. c. 430)
- Gaius Marius Victorinus, (4th century)[e]
- Abu Mansur Maturidi (before 973 – c. 944)[b]
- Al-Mawardi, (974 – 1058)[b]
- Mazdak, (died c. 526)
- Miskawayh, (c. 932 – 1030)[b]
- David Ibn Merwan Al-Mukammas (or Daud Ibn Marwan al-Muqammas or David ha-Bavli), (died 937)[e]
- Musonius Rufus, (1st century)[e]
N edit
- Nagarjuna, (c. 200)[a][c][d][e]
- Muhammad al-Nasafi (died 943)[b]
- Ibrahim an-Nazzam (died 835/45)[b]
- Nemesius of Emesa, (fl. c. 400)[a][e]
- Numenius of Apamea, (2nd century)[a][e]
O edit
- Olympiodorus the Younger, (495 – 570)[f]*
- Origen of Alexandria, (c. 182 – c. 251)[a][e]
P edit
- Pelagius, (c. 360 – c. 435)[c][d]
- Peter the Iberian, (411 – 491)
- Peter of Pisa, (744 – 799)[b]
- Joannes Philoponus, (early 6th century)[a][c][d][e][f]
- Philostratus, (2nd – 3rd centuries)
- Photios I of Constantinople, (c. 810 – c. 893)[b]78
- Plotinus, (died 270)[a][c][d][e][f]
- Mestrius Plutarch of Chaeronia, (c. 45 – c. 120)[e]
- Porphyry, (c. 232 – c. 304)[a][c][d][e][f]
- Prabhākara, (c. 7th century)
- Proclus, (412 – 487)[c][d][e]
- Prudentius of Troyes, (died 861)[b]
- Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, (5th century)[e][f]
- Ptolemy, (c. 85 – c. 165)[e]
Q edit
- Abd al-Karīm ibn Hawāzin Qushayri, (986 – 1072)[b]
- Qusta ibn Luqa, (died 912)[b]
R edit
- Rabanus Maurus (or Hrabanus Maurus), (c. 783 – 856)[b]
- Ratramnus, (died c. 868)[b]
- Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi (or Rhazes), (865–925)[a][b][e]
- Abu Hatim al-Razi, (died c. 934)[b]
- Remigius of Auxerre, (c. 841 – 908)[b]
S edit
- Saadia Gaon, (892 – 942)[a][b][c][d][e][f]
- Ahmad ibn al-Tayyib al-Sarakhsi, (c. 835 – 899)[b]
- Sedulius Scottus, (fl. 840s – 860s)[b]
- Sengzhao, (384 – 414)[e]
- Sextus Empiricus, (2nd/3rd century)[a][c][d][e]
- Muhammad ibn Idris ash-Shafi`i, (767 – 819)[b]
- Sibawayh, (c. 760 – c. 796)[b]
- Siddhasena Divākara, (5th century)
- Adi Shankara, (788 – 820)[a][c][d][e]
- Abu Sulayman Muhammad al-Sijistani, (c. 932 – c. 1000)[b][e]
- Abu Yaqub al-Sijistani, (10th century)[b]
- Simplicius of Cilicia, (early 6th century)[a][e][f]*
- Syrianus, (5th century)[f]*
T edit
- Abu Hayyan al-Tawhidi, (c. 930 – 1023)[b][e]
- Tertullian, (c. 160 – c. 220)[a][e]
- Thābit ibn Qurra, (c. 830 – 901)[b]
- Themistius, (317 – 387)[e]
- Theodore Abu-Qurrah, (c. 750 – c. 816)[b]
U edit
V edit
- Vācaspati Miśra (c. 9th century)
- Valentinius (or Valentinus), (c. 100 – c. 153)[a]
- Valluvar (undated; probably c. 300 BCE to 400 CE)
- Vasubandhu, (4th century)[a][e]
- Vasugupta, (860 – 925)
- Vatsyayana, (5th century)[e]
W edit
- Walafrid Strabo, (c. 808 – 849)[b]
- Wang Bi, (226 – 249)[a]
- Wang Ch'ung, (27–97)[a][e]
- Wasil ibn Ata, (700 – 748)[b]
- Wonchuk, (613 – 696)[e]
- Wonhyo Daisa, (617 – 686)[e]
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Y edit
- Yahya ibn 'Adi, (893 – 974)[b]
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See also edit
- List of philosophers
- List of philosophers born in the centuries BC
- List of philosophers born in the 11th through 14th centuries
- List of philosophers born in the 15th and 16th centuries
- List of philosophers born in the 17th century
- List of philosophers born in the 18th century
- List of philosophers born in the 19th century
- List of philosophers born in the 20th century
Notes edit
- The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, (Second Edition). Cambridge University Press; 1999. ISBN 0-521-63722-8
- 'Biographies of Medieval Authors', Appendix C of The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy, ed. Robert Passnau, Vol. 2., Cambridge, 2010, pp.833-996. ISBN 978-0-521-76218-2