The Great Philosophical Age - 500 BCE to 300 BCE
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A literature chronology, places Athenian tragedy from roughly 472 – 406 BCE and The Analects around the late fifth century BCE.
Greece: Aeschylus – Sophocles – Euripides – Herodotus – Socrates – Plato – Aristotle
India: Buddha – later Upanishads – development of the great Sanskrit epics
China: Confucius – Mozi – Sun Tzu – Laozi/Daoist tradition – Zhuangzi
The Big question: What makes a good human being – and a good society?

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