Buddhist philosophy
Life is full of suffering, it has a cause, and liberation from it is possible
Key ideas
- The Four Noble Truths
- Nothing is permanent and there is no unchanging self
- Everything arises in dependence on other things
- The Middle Way between asceticism and indulgence
Key thinkers
- Gautama Buddha (founder) — founder of Buddhism, 563 BC–483 BC
What grew out of it
- Madhyamaka c. since 150 · Asia
- Yogachara c. since 300 · Asia
- Chan and Zen c. since 500 · Asia
Meanwhile elsewhere
- Milesian school Middle East
- Pythagoreanism Europe
- Eleatics Europe
- Sophists Europe
- Ancient atomism Europe
- Cynicism Europe
- Platonic Academy Europe
- Peripatetic school Europe
- Pyrrhonism Europe
- Epicureanism Europe
- Stoicism Europe
- Patristics Africa
- Neoplatonism Europe
- Kalam Middle East
- Falsafa Middle East
- Nominalism Europe
- Scholasticism Europe
- Renaissance humanism Europe
- British empiricism Europe
- Continental rationalism Europe
- The Enlightenment Europe
- German idealism Europe
- Utilitarianism Europe
- Positivism Europe
- American transcendentalism Americas
- Russian religious philosophy Eastern Europe & Russia
- Existentialism Europe
- Marxism Europe
- Pragmatism Americas
- Russian cosmism Eastern Europe & Russia
- Phenomenology Europe
- Analytic philosophy Europe
- Structuralism Europe
- Logical positivism Europe
- Négritude Africa
- Postmodern philosophy Europe