Home›Metaphysics›RegionBrowse ByRegionRegion names the place where a philosophical school actually began. Wikipedia notes Stoicism was "founded in the ancient Agora of Athens," and was "popularized through public teaching at the Stoa Poikile, a painted colonnade" in that same city. This dimension shows which places have produced the schools of thought that shaped later philosophy.FactsRegionSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEra of EmergenceWell-attested6 BCE 1Cultural Origin TraditionWell-attestedAncient Greek 1Cultural Origin TraditionWell-attestedAncient Indian 1Cultural Origin TraditionWell-attestedAncient Chinese 1RegionFilter Results12 entriesBranch of PhilosophyAllEpistemology (1)Metaphysics (10)Philosophy of Language (1)Philosophy of Mind (4)Philosophy of Religion (2)TraditionAllAncient Philosophy (2)Continental Philosophy (3)Eastern Philosophy (4)Medieval Philosophy (2)Modern Philosophy (3)Phenomenology (2)Scholasticism (1)School of Brentano (1)EraAll-770 (1)-530 (1)-400 (1)-335 (1)-300 (1)-200 (1)-100 (1)150 (2)350 (1)800 (1)870 (1)1100 (2)1265 (1)1781 (2)1836 (1)1894 (1)1900 (1)1911 (1)1929 (2)2007 (1)Founded ByAllAdi Shankara (1)Al-Farabi (1)Alfred North Whitehead (2)Aristotle (1)Badarayana (1)Edmund Husserl (1)Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (2)Immanuel Kant (2)Kanada (1)Kapila (1)Laozi (1)Nagarjuna (2)Nishida Kitaro (1)Patanjali (1)Pythagoras (1)Ralph Waldo Emerson (1)Thomas Aquinas (1)Vasubandhu (1)Zhuangzi (1)Area (sq km)All83,879 (1)132,049 (1)186,447 (1)242,500 (1)357,022 (1)3,287,263 (1)4,000,000 (1)10,186,000 (1)24,709,000 (1)30,370,000 (1)44,579,000 (1)Country CountAll23 (1)44 (1)49 (1)54 (1)Government TypeAllConstitutional Monarchy (1)Republic (4)Highest Elevation (m)All5642 (1)5895 (1)6190 (1)8849 (1)Income GroupAllHigh (4)Lower-Middle (1)Independence or Founding YearAll1801 (1)1832 (1)1918 (1)1947 (1)1949 (1)LandlockedAllNo (4)Yes (1)PopulationAll9,219,113 (1)9,267,000 (1)15,431,980 (1)69,414,000 (1)82,000,000 (1)83,497,147 (1)201,081,297 (1)592,296,233 (1)745,173,774 (1)1,210,854,977 (1)1,393,676,444 (1)4,694,576,167 (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 12AfricaRegion1 entryAsiaRegion12 entriesAustriaRegion2 entriesCentral AsiaRegion1 entryEuropeRegion9 entriesGermanyRegion1 entryGreeceRegion2 entriesIndiaRegion1 entryNew EnglandRegion1 entryNorth AmericaRegion1 entryUnited KingdomRegion1 entryWestern EuropeRegion1 entrySources1. Metaphysics (Wikipedia)tier 2WikipediaMetaphysics, lead section, Greek emergence sentenceIn ancient Greece, metaphysics emerged in the 6th century BCE with the pre-Socratic philosophers, who gave rational explanations of the cosmos as a whole.Metaphysics, lead section, Indian origin sentenceIn ancient India, starting in the 7th century BCE, the Upanishads were written as religious and philosophical texts that examine how ultimate reality constitutes the ground of all being.Metaphysics, lead section, Chinese origin sentenceAt about the same time in ancient China, the school of Taoism was formed and explored the natural order of the universe.View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.