There where many schools of thoughts that existed around similar times in history.

• Pre-Socratics:
• Sophists:
• Socratics, probably the most important and influential in Western philosophy. Main characters are Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. The last two have written several books hence and have quite differences, hecne they can be split futher into Platonism and Aristotelianism.
• Stoics:
• Epicureans:
• Cynics:
• Skeptics:
• Neoplatonsists:

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• The differences between Epicureanism and Stoicism. It’s worth mentioning that the Stoics, especially Seneca, borrowed from the opposing and rival philosophical school. (“I’ll never be ashamed to quote a bad writer with a good saying.” - Seneca).