Philosophical Inclinations

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posted on: 2025-11-08

Positions

name	lived	ideas
Laozi	c. 500 BCE	dào, wúwéi, ziran
Heraclitus	c. 500 BCE	λόγος, πάντα ῥεῖ, unity of opposites
Plato	429 — 347 BCE	διαλεκτική, forms, ψυχὴ κόσμου
Aristotle	384 — 322 BCE	δύναμις, φρόνησις, τέλος
Plotinus	204 — 270	emanationism, monism
Zongmi	780 — 841	běnjué, fóxìng, nature origination
Abhinavagupta	950 — 1016	pratyabhijñā, svātantrya, spanda
Peirce	1839 — 1914	agapism, pragmaticism, synechism, tychism
Whitehead	1861 — 1947	process-relational organicism
Smullyan	1919 — 2017	logical daoism