Archive - Existential Comics

A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes

Philosophers:

Infinity B.C. – 1882 God ( 22, 56, 81, 147)
624 B.C. – 546 B.C. Thales ( 95, 129, 155, 181, 216, 250, 328, 362)
610 B.C. – 546 B.C. Anaximander ( 216)
585 B.C. – 527 B.C. Anaximendis ( 216)
570 B.C. – 495 B.C. Pythagoras ( 95, 118, 189, 181, 362)
563 B.C. – 483 B.C. Gautama Buddha ( 51, 102, 226, 231, 269)
551 B.C. – 479 B.C. Confucius ( 35)
535 B.C. – 475 B.C. Heraclitus ( 95, 97, 129, 181, 250, 362)
515 B.C. – 460 B.C. Parmenides ( 95, 107, 129, 200, 181)
490 B.C. – 420 B.C. Protagoras ( 68, 76, 128, 137)
490 B.C. – 430 B.C. Zeno of Elea ( 3, 50, 95, 118, 129, 142)
485 B.C. – 380 B.C. Gorgias ( 128)
480 B.C. – 408 B.C. Mahavira ( 113)
470 B.C. – 399 B.C. Socrates ( 3, 76, 90, 95, 104, 100, 108, 115, 128, 137
145, 153, 155, 177, 192, 196, 219, 223, 272, 274
344, 363)
460 B.C. – 370 B.C. Democritus ( 97, 129, 181, 250, 362)
428 B.C. – 348 B.C. Plato ( 44, 47, 55, 57, 82, 121, 122, 129, 143, 179
182, 198, 219, 223, 222, 233, 250, 323, 344)
412 B.C. – 323 B.C. Diogenes of Sinope ( 31, 55, 179, 219)
384 B.C. – 322 B.C. Aristotle ( 55, 107, 113, 118, 242, 277, 305)
365 B.C. – 285 B.C. Crates of Thebes ( 179)
360 B.C. – 270 B.C. Pyrrho ( 4, 68, 93, 143)
341 B.C. – 270 B.C. Epicurus ( 47, 55, 57, 82, 86, 121, 133, 143, 182, 198)
334 B.C. – 262 B.C. Zeno of Citium ( 50, 55, 69, 118, 129, 142, 151, 179)
4 – 65 Seneca the Younger ( 179, 334)
55 – 135 Epictetus ( 102, 130, 151, 201, 264, 271, 286, 324, 338, 355)
121 – 180 Marcus Aurelius ( 48, 86, 151)
160 – 210 Sextus Empiricus ( 93)
204 – 270 Plotinus ( 12, 250)
354 – 430 Augustine of Hippo ( 78, 205, 258, 262)
360 – 415 Hypatia of Alexandria ( 95, 163, 237)
480 – 534 Boethius ( 156)
490 – 420 Diotima of Mantinea ( 363)
801 – 873 Al Kindi ( 96, 237)
973 – 1057 Al-Ma'arri ( 241)
980 – 1037 Avicenna (Ibn-Sina) ( 71, 267)
1033 – 1109 Anselm of Canterbury ( 83)
1058 – 1111 Al-Ghazali ( 71, 126)
1126 – 1198 Averroes (Ibn Rushd) ( 71, 126, 250)
1135 – 1204 Maimonides ( 22)
1207 – 1273 Rumi ( 71)
1225 – 1274 Thomas Aquinas ( 78, 355)
1295 – 1358 Jean Buridan ( 78)
1469 – 1527 Niccolo Machiavelli ( 34, 169)
1533 – 1592 Montaigne ( 93)
1561 – 1626 Francis Bacon ( 183, 319)
1564 – 1616 William Shakespeare ( 45)
1588 – 1679 Thomas Hobbes ( 17, 26, 34, 37, 68, 107, 211, 280, 305)
1596 – 1650 Rene Descartes ( 3, 68, 81, 86, 93, 103, 134, 155, 183, 188
205, 214, 242, 227, 250)
1599 – 1692 Zera Yacob ( 319)
1632 – 1677 Baruch Spinoza ( 43, 59, 103, 104, 134, 250, 317)
1632 – 1704 John Locke ( 90, 183, 211, 280, 318)
1638 – 1715 Nicolas Malebranche ( 78, 103)
1643 – 1727 Isaac Newton ( 84)
1646 – 1716 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz ( 43, 47, 57, 59, 82, 84, 103, 104, 108, 121
143, 173, 182, 200, 198, 250)
1685 – 1756 George Berkeley ( 26, 47, 57, 82, 88, 121, 183, 182, 198, 250)
1694 – 1778 Voltaire ( 93, 108)
1711 – 1776 David Hume ( 3, 39, 51, 65, 92, 93, 122, 162, 183, 202
205, 212, 231, 267, 276, 330)
1712 – 1778 Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 34, 211, 280)
1723 – 1790 Adam Smith ( 280, 337)
1724 – 1804 Immanuel Kant ( 3, 23, 26, 35, 39, 47, 57, 63, 65, 68
82, 92, 103, 121, 122, 143, 162, 176, 182, 202
258, 250, 293, 298, 334, 355)
1729 – 1797 Edmund Burke ( 116, 131, 160, 305)
1740 – 1814 Marquis de Sade ( 104)
1748 – 1832 Jeremy Bentham ( 26, 60, 68, 139, 236, 273, 283, 303, 325)
1756 – 1836 William Godwin ( 247)
1759 – 1797 Mary Wollstonecraft ( 116, 131, 190, 237)
1762 – 1814 Johann Gottlieb Fichte ( 176, 207, 221, 298)
1770 – 1831 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ( 35, 40, 74, 176, 207, 221, 281, 302, 307, 312
319, 348)
1788 – 1860 Arthur Schopenhauer ( 40, 56, 102, 127, 194, 213, 237, 160, 256, 269
281, 299, 356)
1803 – 1882 Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 120)
1804 – 1872 Ludwig Feuerbach ( 148)
1806 – 1856 Max Stirner ( 77, 86, 148, 209, 273)
1807 – 1873 John Stuart Mill ( 77, 107, 236, 325)
1809 – 1865 Pierre-Joseph Proudhon ( 345)
1813 – 1855 Soren Kierkegaard ( 7, 20, 61, 79, 85, 87, 99, 105, 127, 152
172, 174, 178, 204, 237, 242, 246, 229, 254, 281
299, 306, 347)
1814 – 1876 Mikhail Bakunin ( 159, 165, 195, 247, 345)
1817 – 1862 Henry David Thoreau ( 120)
1818 – 1883 Karl Marx ( 19, 35, 37, 49, 74, 90, 112, 119, 77, 136
138, 148, 154, 165, 173, 186, 195, 203, 234, 240
243, 263, 266, 280, 307, 313, 317, 320, 326, 334)
1820 – 1895 Friedrich Engels ( 148, 203)
1820 – 1903 Herbert Spencer ( 280)
1821 – 1881 Fyodor Dostoyevsky ( 45, 79, 88, 107, 113, 139, 236)
1828 – 1910 Leo Tolstoy ( 107)
1838 – 1900 Henry Sidgwick ( 258)
1839 – 1914 Charles Sander Peirce ( 115)
1842 – 1910 William James ( 30)
1842 – 1921 Peter Kropotkin ( 155, 159, 247, 345)
1844 – 1900 Friedrich Nietzsche ( 19, 35, 56, 69, 75, 77, 79, 86, 87, 88
90, 102, 107, 146, 150, 161, 176, 208, 217, 242
273, 282, 309, 316, 311, 360)
1845 – 1918 Georg Cantor ( 45)
1848 – 1925 Gottlob Frege ( 28, 36, 65, 80, 146, 268)
1854 – 1938 Karl Kautsky ( 136)
1856 – 1939 Sigmund Freud ( 19, 26, 34, 49, 138, 171, 173, 255, 285, 355)
1861 – 1947 J.L. Austin ( 89, 171, 268)
1861 – 1937 Lou Salome ( 150, 208)
1862 – 1943 David Hilbert ( 36)
1869 – 1940 Emma Goldman ( 159, 345)
1870 – 1924 Vladimir Lenin ( 154, 195)
1871 – 1919 Rosa Luxemburg ( 195, 234)
1872 – 1970 Bertrand Russell ( 3, 6, 26, 28, 65, 74, 83, 89, 90, 92
115, 146, 149, 191, 196, 245, 292, 304, 342)
1879 – 1934 Hans Hahn ( 170)
1882 – 1936 Moritz Schlick ( 30, 170, 252, 275)
1882 – 1945 Otto Neurath ( 170, 252, 275)
1883 – 1924 Franz Kafka ( 16, 79)
1889 – 1970 Amadeo Bordiga ( 195)
1889 – 1976 Martin Heidegger ( 26, 51, 52, 72, 79, 87, 127, 226, 242)
1889 – 1951 Ludwig Wittgenstein ( 6, 7, 26, 28, 65, 80, 89, 90, 94, 108
117, 141, 170, 184, 198, 245, 252, 250, 268, 275
279, 284, 290, 292, 308, 321)
1891 – 1970 Rudolf Carnap ( 19, 28, 30, 35, 49, 80, 89, 146, 170, 252
268, 275, 358)
1895 – 1973 Max Horkheimer ( 257)
1898 – 1979 Herbert Marcuse ( 257)
1899 – 1992 Friedrich Hayek ( 186)
1900 – 1980 Erich Fromm ( 257)
1901 – 1981 Jacques Lacan ( 167)
1901 – 1983 Alfred Tarski ( 232)
1902 – 1994 Karl Popper ( 49, 89, 285, 358)
1903 – 1969 Theodor Adorno ( 251, 257)
1905 – 1982 Ayn Rand ( 77, 37, 136, 186, 234, 258, 364)
1905 – 1980 Jean Paul Sartre ( 3, 17, 23, 35, 41, 46, 51, 52, 58, 65
68, 72, 79, 85, 87, 96, 105, 101, 107, 140
144, 152, 155, 166, 172, 178, 187, 193, 197, 215
220, 235, 244, 254, 248, 288, 295, 317, 322, 331
333, 354, 361)
1906 – 1975 Hannah Arendt ( 32, 68, 190, 199)
1906 – 1989 Samuel Beckett ( 35, 45, 79)
1906 – 1978 Kurt Godel ( 36, 45)
1906 – 1998 Nelson Goodman ( 2, 30, 51)
1908 – 1986 Simone de Beauvoir ( 23, 32, 52, 58, 63, 66, 72, 77, 79, 83
85, 87, 88, 90, 96, 99, 104, 105, 101, 116
122, 127, 135, 139, 150, 152, 172, 185, 187, 190
191, 193, 199, 215, 218, 226, 242, 244, 246, 227
254, 249, 294, 305, 331, 333, 361)
1908 – 1961 Maurice Merleau-Ponty ( 139, 166, 135, 235)
1908 – 2000 Willard Van Quine ( 28, 30, 36, 89, 171, 185)
1909 – 1943 Simone Weil ( 116, 190, 307, 331)
1913 – 1960 Albert Camus ( 30, 35, 41, 58, 68, 72, 79, 83, 85, 90
99, 104, 107, 109, 110, 127, 140, 152, 162, 168
172, 180, 187, 193, 211, 225, 226, 230, 246, 254
260, 301, 330, 331)
1915 – 1980 Roland Barthes ( 138, 318)
1917 – 2003 Donald Davidson ( 104, 270)
1919 – 2001 G.E.M. Anscombe ( 32, 116, 190, 258, 334)
1919 – 2018 Mary Midgley ( 294)
1920 – 2010 Philippa Foot ( 32, 60, 106)
1921 – 2002 John Rawls ( 37, 38, 119, 199, 350)
1922 – 1996 Thomas Kuhn ( 49, 358)
1924 – 1998 Jean-Francois Lyotard ( 224)
1925 – 2011 Michael Dummett ( 88)
1925 – 1961 Frantz Fanon ( 175)
1925 – 1995 Gilles Deleuze ( 96)
1926 – 1984 Michel Foucault ( 23, 35, 135, 146, 167, 175, 224, 249, 303, 343
352)
1926 – 2016 Hilary Putnam ( 104, 265)
1926 – present Noam Chomsky ( 64, 175)
1926 – 1995 Murray Rothbard ( 234)
1927 – present Edmund Gettier ( 177)
1929 – 2007 Jean Baudrillard ( 35)
1930 – 2002 Pierre Bourdieu ( 135)
1930 – 2004 Jacques Derrida ( 23, 35, 146, 167, 182, 185, 224, 257)
1931 – 2007 Richard Rorty ( 96, 218)
1932 – present John Searle ( 277)
1933 – present Robert Paul Wolff ( 350)
1938 – 2002 Robert Nozick ( 38, 119, 159)
1940 – present Saul Kripke ( 277)
1941 – 2001 David Lewis ( 156, 177)
1942 – 2017 Derek Parfit ( 64, 107)
1942 – present Dan Dennett ( 59, 64, 67)
1944 – present Donna Haraway ( 305)
1944 – present Angela Davis ( 349)
1946 – present Peter Singer ( 3, 8, 64, 139, 236, 253)
1949 – present Slavoj Zizek ( 64, 123, 206)
1956 – present Judith Butler ( 32, 86)
1966 – present David Benatar ( 96, 253)
1966 – present David Chalmers ( 59, 67)

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