TIMELINE
Many conversations across time
This is a chronological index of writing, publication, translation, teaching, and reception—not a single story of progress.
68 events · 478 BCE → 2025 CE
Commemoration and reception from 478 BCE onward
The Confucius complex at Qufu documents long reception, not the composition place of the Analects.
Early fifth century BCE
On Nature poses the conditions of being and change in poetic form.
Around the fifth century BCE
Early discourses frame suffering not as an inescapable fate but as a problem with causes and practices.
From the fifth century BCE
Not-self analysis opens a tradition that treats persons as aggregates and causal processes.
Around 380 BCE
Republic X asks poetry and images to answer for their epistemic and political effects.
Approximately 5th–3rd century BCE
The Mozi is a Mohist compilation with multiple periods and voices; no single composition city is inferred.
Transmitted layers around the 4th century BCE
The Analects is a layered transmitted text; no single composition city is inferred.
Around 335 BCE
The Poetics makes tragic plot and emotion objects of analysis.
Approximately 335 BCE
Aristotle establishes his school and teaches at the Lyceum in Athens; this activity site is not an exact composition place for the work.
Athens · Activity
Around 335 BCE
Work associated with the Lyceum period systematizes a vocabulary of substance and change.
Athens · Activity
Approximately 4th century BCE
The Nicomachean Ethics distinguishes activity, habituation, a complete life, and external conditions; no exact composition city is inferred.
Around 307/306 BCE
Epicurus develops the school known as the Garden in Athens.
Athens · Activity
Approximately 4th century BCE
The Mengzi is a transmitted text arguing about rule, livelihood, trust, and ruler status; no composition city is inferred.
Around 300 BCE
The Letter to Menoeceus dismantles fear of death through an argument about sensation and time.
Approximately 4th century BCE
The Mengzi preserves several arguments about cultivating and extending incipient moral responses.
Arguments around the 3rd century BCE; later compilation
Warring States arguments in the Xunzi and Liu Xiang's later compilation are not merged into one composition-city event.
Early second century
Arrian's records of Epictetus' teaching preserve a discipline of volition and freedom.
Around the second or third century
The Fundamental Verses re-examine intrinsic nature and causation through dependence and emptiness.
Later preservation around the 3rd century CE
Book X of Diogenes Laertius preserves the Letter to Menoeceus and Principal Doctrines; the preservation context is not turned into Epicurus’s composition place.
Around 1027
This scene from the Demonstration is presented as Isfahan, around 1027.
Around 1077–1078
The Proslogion turns conceptual reflection within faith into a public argument.
Around 1095
The Incoherence reframes a conflict between revelation and reason as a question about what has actually been demonstrated.
1620
The Novum Organum presents discovery as an error-reducing procedure rather than a lucky flash of insight.
1641
The Latin Meditations appears in Paris and places the mind-body distinction at center stage.
Paris · Publication
1677
The posthumous Ethics explains necessity and human freedom within one nature.
Amsterdam · Publication
1694
The second edition of the Essay adds the chapter on identity and diversity.
1748
Section VIII of the Enquiry presents a public argument reconciling liberty and necessity.
1758
Jean-Bernard Mérian's French translation is published in Amsterdam.
Amsterdam · Translation
1779
The posthumous Dialogues tests design arguments through several competing voices.
1781
The first Critique redraws the limits of reality as it can be experienced.
1790
The third Critique joins personal pleasure to the possibility of shared judgment.
1843
The first edition of A System of Logic is published in two volumes in London.
London · Publication
1843
Published pseudonymously in Copenhagen, Fear and Trembling presents faith as an unresolved ethical paradox.
Copenhagen · Publication
1849
The Sickness Unto Death develops despair as a problem in self-relation rather than a passing mood.
1892
“Ueber Sinn und Bedeutung” appears in journal volume 100, pages 25–50.
1892
Frege teaches and works at Jena; this marker does not identify the place where the article was written or published.
Jena · Teaching and appointment
1903
The Souls of Black Folk records the inner division of racialized life as a social and epistemic problem.
1934
Published in New York, Art as Experience returns art to the rhythms of living.
New York · Publication
1934
The Logic of Scientific Discovery locates a boundary of science in claims that risk being wrong.
1942
Published in Paris, The Myth of Sisyphus proposes lucid persistence and revolt rather than suicide before the absurd.
Paris · Publication
January 1945
The preface records Cambridge, January 1945 as its place and date.
Cambridge · Composition
1949
The posthumous A Sand County Almanac recasts humans as members, not conquerors, of the land community.
1949
Published in Paris, The Second Sex relocates the knowing subject in embodiment and situation.
Paris · Publication
1952
Black Skin, White Masks analyzes colonialism not only as an institution but as an epistemic structure inscribed in body and language.
1953
The German and English edition is published posthumously by Basil Blackwell in Oxford.
Oxford · Publication
1955
The Harvard University Press edition is published in Cambridge.
Cambridge, MA · Publication
1958
The article 'Justice as Fairness' appears in a scholarly journal; its bibliographic record does not establish a writing or presentation city.
1962–1991
Rawls begins research and teaching in Harvard's Philosophy Department; the activity site does not validate the theory itself.
Cambridge, MA · Activity
1962
Published in Chicago, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions depicts scientific time as alternating normal work and revolutionary change.
Chicago · Publication
1969
Frankfurt's article shifts attention from alternative possibilities to the actual source of action.
1970
The core lectures are delivered in Princeton’s Three Lecture Series.
Princeton · Lecture
1971
The first edition of A Theory of Justice is published by Belknap Press in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Cambridge, MA · Publication
October 1974
Nagel's article makes the subjective character of consciousness a central problem in philosophy of mind.
1979
The Imperative of Responsibility extends technological ethics to future people and planetary conditions.
1980
The book Naming and Necessity is published by Harvard University Press.
Cambridge, MA · Publication
1984
Published in Oxford, Reasons and Persons makes future identity and population ethics central philosophical problems.
Oxford · Publication
1990
Science as Social Knowledge locates objectivity in critical social structures rather than individual detachment.
1993
Feminism and the Mastery of Nature analyzes ecological destruction through conceptual structures linked to gendered, embodied, and colonial domination.
2007
Epistemic Injustice formulates inequalities of credibility and interpretation as distinct wrongs in the ethics of knowing.
Current reception context documented in 2025
The current institutional record at Zoucheng documents reception and commemoration of Mencius, not the composition place of the Mengzi.
Current reception context documented in 2025
The current institutional record at Zoucheng documents reception and commemoration of Mencius, not the composition place of the Mengzi.