Philosophers Contribution
1. PLATO- was the innovator of the written
dialogue and dialectic forms in philosophy. Plato
appears to have been the founder of Western
political philosophy, with his Republic, and Laws
among other dialogues, providing some of the
earliest extant treatments of political questions
from a philosophical perspective. Plato's own most
decisive philosophical influences are usually
thought to have been Socrates, Parmenides,
Heraclitus and Pythagoras, although few of his
predecessors' works remain extant and much of
what we know about these figures today derives
from Plato himself
2. Immanuel Kant- was a German philosopher
who is a central figure in modern philosophy.
3. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche- was a German
philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and
Latin and Greek scholar whose work has exerted a
profound influence on Western philosophy and
modern intellectual history
4. Rudolf Steiner- Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner
was an Austrian philosopher and social reformer,
and founder of Anthroposophy
5. Confucius- was a Chinese teacher, editor,
politician, and philosopher of the Spring and
The Apology of Socrates,
by Plato, is the Socratic dialogue
that presents the speech of legal
self-defence,
which Socrates presented at
his trial for impiety and corruption,
in 399 BC
The critical movement sees the
primary task
of philosophy as criticism rather
than justification of knowledge;
criticism, for Kant, meant judging
as to the possibilities of knowledge
before advancing to knowledge
itself 
The Apollonian and Dionysian is
a philosophical and literary
concept, or dichotomy, based on
certain features of ancient Greek
mythology. Many Western
philosophical and literary figures
have invoked this dichotomy in
critical and creative works.
His philosophy highlights a
balanced development of
cognitive, artistic, and practical
skills.
He divides education into three
developmental stages. Early
childhood, where teachers offer
practical activities and a healthy
environment. Elementary, which is
primarily arts-based, centered on
the teacher’s creative jurisdiction.
And Secondary, which seeks to
develop the judgment, reasoning,
and practical idealism
Confucianism, also known
as Ruism, is described as
Autumn period of Chinese history.
6. Ibn Rushd- often Latinized as Averroes, was
a medieval Andalusian polymath. He wrote
on logic, Aristotelian and Islamic
philosophy, theology, the Maliki school of Islamic
jurisprudence, psychology, political and Andalusia
n classical music theory, geography, mathematics,
and the mediæval
sciences of medicine, astronomy, physics,
and celestial mechanics
tradition, a philosophy, a religion, a
humanistic or rationalistic religion,
a way of governing, or simply a
way of life.]Confucianism
developed from what was later
called the Hundred Schools of
Thought from the teachings of
the Chinese
philosopher Confucius, who
considered himself a retransmitter
of the values of the Zhou
dynasty golden age of several
centuries before
Aristotelianism- is a tradition of
philosophy that takes its defining
inspiration from the work of
Aristotle. (This school of thought is
in the modern sense of
philosophy, covering existence,
ethics, mind, and related subjects.
In Aristotle's time, philosophy
included natural philosophy; that
was replaced by modern science
during the Scientific Revolution.)