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Who influenced Aristotle?

  • Plato

    Greek philosopher (c. 427 – 348 BC)

    Influenced 62

    Influenced by 7

  • Socrates

    classical Greek Athenian philosopher (c. 470 – 399 BC)

    Influenced 15

    Influenced by 1

  • Heraclitus

    Greek philosopher

    Influenced 14

    Influenced by 2

  • Parmenides

    late 6th/early 5th century BC Greek pre-Socratic philosopher

    Influenced 8

    Influenced by 1

  • Epicurus

    ancient Greek philosopher

    Influenced 7

    Influenced by 3

  • Democritus

    Greek philosopher (c. 460–c. 370 BC)

    Influenced 5

    Influenced by 1

  • Anaximander

    pre-Socratic Greek philosopher

    Influenced 4

    Influenced by 1

  • Empedocles

    5th century BC Greek philosopher

    Influenced 2

    Influenced by 1

  • Hippocrates

    Greek physician ( c. 460 – c. 370 BC)

    Influenced 2

    Influenced by 0

  • Zeno of Elea

    Greek philosopher (c. 495 – c. 430 BC)

    Influenced 2

    Influenced by 1

Who was influenced by Aristotle?

  • Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

    German philosopher and theologian (1770–1831)

    Influenced 78

    Influenced by 16

  • Friedrich Nietzsche

    German philosopher (1844–1900)

    Influenced 71

    Influenced by 67

  • Martin Heidegger

    German philosopher (1889–1976)

    Influenced 59

    Influenced by 13

  • Benedictus de Spinoza

    Dutch philosopher (1632–1677)

    Influenced 46

    Influenced by 18

  • Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

    German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716)

    Influenced 31

    Influenced by 29

  • René Descartes

    French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist

    Influenced 28

    Influenced by 7

  • Søren Kierkegaard

    Danish theologian, philosopher, poet and social critic (1813–1855)

    Influenced 27

    Influenced by 10

  • Thomas Aquinas

    Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church

    Influenced 24

    Influenced by 15

  • Leo Tolstoy

    Russian author (1828–1910)

    Influenced 19

    Influenced by 20

  • Dante Alighieri

    Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265–1321)

    Influenced 17

    Influenced by 6

  • Averroes

    Arab Andalusian Muslim writer and philosopher (1126–1198)

    Influenced 16

    Influenced by 11

  • Ayn Rand

    Russian-born American writer and public philosopher (1905–1982)

    Influenced 16

    Influenced by 11

  • Henri Bergson

    French philosopher (1859–1941)

    Influenced 16

    Influenced by 21

  • Henry David Thoreau

    American essayist, poet, and philosopher (1817–1862)

    Influenced 12

    Influenced by 8

  • Avicenna

    Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c.980–1037)

    Influenced 11

    Influenced by 12

  • Moshe ben Maimon

    Medieval Jewish philosopher from Spain (1135–1204)

    Influenced 11

    Influenced by 5

  • C. S. Lewis

    British writer, lay theologian and scholar (1898–1963)

    Influenced 10

    Influenced by 20

  • Hannah Arendt

    German-American political theorist and philosopher (1906–1975)

    Influenced 10

    Influenced by 22

  • Al-Farabi

    10th century Islamic philosopher and jurist

    Influenced 8

    Influenced by 3

  • Edmund Burke

    Anglo-Irish statesman, political theorist and conservative philosopher (1729–1797)

    Influenced 8

    Influenced by 7

  • Karl Popper

    Austrian-British philosopher of science and social and política e falsificationism and for criticism of Plato, Hegel and Marx as totalitarian opponents of open society (1902-1994)

    Influenced 8

    Influenced by 10

  • Muhammad Iqbal

    South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, and politician (1877-1938)

    Influenced 8

    Influenced by 12

  • Pierre Bourdieu

    French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher (1930–2002)

    Influenced 8

    Influenced by 16

  • Charles Maurras

    French author, politician, poet, and critic (1868–1952)

    Influenced 7

    Influenced by 8

  • Georges Canguilhem

    French philosopher (1904-1995)

    Influenced 7

    Influenced by 13

  • Alain

    French philosopher

    Influenced 5

    Influenced by 8

  • George Sand

    French novelist and memoirist; pseudonym of Lucile Aurore Dupin

    Influenced 5

    Influenced by 17

  • Ptolemy

    2nd-century Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer

    Influenced 5

    Influenced by 1

  • Thomas Hobbes

    English philosopher (1588–1679)

    Influenced 5

    Influenced by 4

  • Denis Diderot

    French Enlightenment philosopher writer and encyclopædist (1713–1784)

    Influenced 4

    Influenced by 3

  • Boethius

    Roman senator and philosopher of the early 6th century

    Influenced 3

    Influenced by 6

  • Hans-Georg Gadamer

    German philosopher (1900–2002)

    Influenced 3

    Influenced by 9

  • Proclus

    5th-century Greek Neoplatonist philosopher

    Influenced 3

    Influenced by 5

  • William of Ockham

    English Franciscan friar and theologian (c.1287–1347)

    Influenced 3

    Influenced by 3

  • Bernard Stiegler

    French philosopher (1952–2020)

    Influenced 2

    Influenced by 12

  • Damaris Cudworth Masham

    British philosopher, (1659-1708)

    Influenced 2

    Influenced by 6

  • Hasdai Crescas

    Spanish Jewish philosopher and teacher (c.1340–1410/11)

    Influenced 2

    Influenced by 4

  • Nicolaus Copernicus

    Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473–1543)

    Influenced 2

    Influenced by 7

  • Alexander the Great

    king of Macedonia and conqueror of Achaemenid Persia (356–323 BC)

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 1

  • G. E. M. Anscombe

    British analytic philosopher

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 3

  • Hypatia

    Greek Neoplatonist philosopher

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 6

  • J. L. Austin

    English philosopher

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 1

  • Jean Gebser

    philosopher, linguist (1905-1973)

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 10

  • John Major

    Scottish philosopher

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 3

  • Martha Nussbaum

    American philosopher

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 4

  • Philippa Foot

    English philosopher (1920–2010)

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 4

  • Ploutarchos of Athens

    Greek philosopher (c. 350 – 430 AD)

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 2

  • Stefan Molyneux

    far-right white nationalist and white supremacist podcaster, blogger, author and political commentator

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 5

  • Vasily Seseman

    Russian and Lithuanian philosopher and teacher

    Influenced 1

    Influenced by 10

  • Al-Jubba'i

    Arab philosopher (died c. 915)

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 1

  • Andrea Cesalpino

    Italian physician, botanist and philosopher (1524–1603)

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 2

  • Barry Smith

    British ontologist

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 1

  • Benedict Pereira

    Spanish theologian and philosopher

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 13

  • Chantal Delsol

    French philosopher

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 5

  • David Anhaght

    Armenian philosopher/5th century

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 4

  • David Hollenbach

    American academic

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 1

  • Dmitry Galkovsky

    Russian philosopher and writer

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 3

  • Eugene Thacker

    American philosopher

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 10

  • Giovanni Botero

    Italian diplomat and academic

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 4

  • Ibn al-Haytham

    Persian physicist, mathematician and astronomer (c. 965 – c. 1040)

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 1

  • Indalecio Armesto

    Spanish writer, journalist and jurist (1838-1890)

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 9

  • Jacopo Stellini

    Italian abbot, writer and philosopher

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 2

  • Jean Buridan

    medieval philosopher (ca. 1300-1358)

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 2

  • Mortimer J. Adler

    American philosopher, author and educator

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 4

  • Neel Burton

    British psychiatrist and author

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 7

  • Nel Noddings

    American philosopher

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 4

  • Nicomachus

    Greco-Syrian mathematician (c. 60 – c. 120 AD)

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 1

  • Pierre Manent

    Professor of political philosophy

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 1

  • Rodrigo de Arriaga

    Spanish philosopher, jesuit, theologian

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 3

  • Rémi Brague

    French philosopher

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 4

  • Sebastián Izquierdo

    Spanish philosopher

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 4

  • Siger of Brabant

    Belgian philosopher, c. 1240–1284

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 2

  • Strato of Lampsacus

    ancient Greek philosopher

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 2

  • Yeshayahu Leibowitz

    Israeli intellectual

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 6

  • Éric Weil

    French philosopher

    Influenced 0

    Influenced by 4