Index
PhiloDocs
Open-source notes for the history of thought: a philosophy wiki, timeline, and relationship graph built for clear understanding. It started as a personal database for remembering what thinkers actually said, and it keeps that bias toward plain language, useful examples, and visible links between ideas.
Thinkers
Essential nodes
Thales
thinkerEarly Greek thinker traditionally treated as the first Presocratic philosopher, associated with natural explanation and the claim that water is fundamental.
Anaximander
thinkerMilesian Presocratic thinker associated with the apeiron, an indefinite originating principle, and one of the earliest surviving fragments of Greek philosophy.
Mahavira
thinkerJain teacher and reformer associated with nonviolence, ascetic discipline, karma theory, and liberation through purification of the soul.
Pythagoras
thinkerGreek religious-philosophical figure associated with number, harmony, transmigration, communal discipline, and the Pythagorean tradition.
Confucius
thinkerChinese teacher and ritual thinker whose model of humane cultivation became a central source for Confucian ethics and political thought.
Heraclitus
thinkerPresocratic thinker of flux, conflict, logos, and hidden order, known through dense fragments that shaped later metaphysics.
Parmenides
thinkerPresocratic thinker whose poem argues for the unity and necessity of being, forcing later philosophy to confront the problem of change.
Mozi
thinkerChinese thinker and founder of Mohism, known for impartial concern, anti-aggression, merit, frugality, and practical argument.
Schools
Core traditions
Africana Philosophy
schoolPhilosophical work rooted in African, African diasporic, Black Atlantic, and anti-colonial thought.
Aristotelianism
schoolTradition rooted in Aristotle's systematic work on logic, nature, metaphysics, virtue, politics, and inquiry into causes.
Buddhism
schoolPhilosophical and religious tradition centered on suffering, impermanence, non-self, dependent arising, disciplined practice, and liberation.
Confucianism
schoolChinese ethical and political tradition focused on ritual, humane conduct, family roles, moral cultivation, and ordered social life.
Continental Philosophy
schoolModern European family of traditions focused on history, subjectivity, meaning, critique, existence, power, language, and social life.
Critical Theory
schoolTradition of social critique focused on domination, ideology, reason, capitalism, culture, and emancipatory possibility.
Works
Text anchors
A Treatise of Human Nature
workHume's ambitious attempt to build a science of human nature through impressions, ideas, causation, personal identity, passions, and morals.
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
workHume's mature and concise presentation of empiricist skepticism about causation, induction, miracles, necessity, and human knowledge.
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
workLocke's major empiricist study of ideas, knowledge, probability, personal identity, language, and the limits of human understanding.
Being and Time
workHeidegger's inquiry into the question of being through Dasein, worldhood, care, temporality, death, and authenticity.
Capital
workMarx's mature critique of capitalist production, commodity form, surplus value, exploitation, accumulation, and crisis.
Critique of Pure Reason
workKant's first critique, written to determine the conditions, scope, and limits of human knowledge and metaphysics.
Clusters