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Tradition

Tradition places a philosopher within the larger, longer-running current of thought that followed from their work. Wikipedia notes the Critique of Pure Reason "helped bring about the development of German idealism," the tradition most directly descended from Kant's own thinking. This dimension groups philosophers who stand within the same broad tradition.

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Cultural Origin Tradition

Ancient Greek 1

Cultural Origin Tradition

Ancient Indian 1

Cultural Origin Tradition

Ancient Chinese 1

Cultural Origin Tradition

Ancient Egyptian 1

Tradition

Academic Skepticism

African philosophy, Ubuntu ethics

Analytic philosophy

Analytic philosophy; analytical Thomism

Analytic philosophy; virtue ethics; Aristotelianism

Ancient Greek philosophy, Cynicism

Antipositivism

British Empiricism, Utilitarianism, philosophical liberalism

British Utilitarianism

Classical Chinese philosophy

Classical Chinese philosophy, Confucianism

Constructivist Kantian ethics

Contemporary Aristotelian ethics, the capabilities approach

Continental philosophy

Contractualism

Cynic philosophy

Environmental philosophy (deep ecology)

Existentialism

Existentialism (precursor); Spanish Generation of '98

Hellenistic and Roman philosophy, Stoicism

Hellenistic philosophy, Epicureanism

Hellenistic philosophy, Stoicism

Japanese moral philosophy (ethics)

Kantian ethics

Mohism

Moral philosophy (Platonist ethics)

Naturalist moral realism

Neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics, Thomism

Neoplatonism

Neostoicism

Non-cognitivism (metaethics)

Objectivism

Opposition to positivism

Prescriptivism (metaethics); preference utilitarianism

Quasi-realism (metaethics); neo-Humean views

Roman Stoicism

Stoicism

Ubuntu philosophy

Utilitarianism