Name: Agora – An open dataset of the history of philosophy and sociology
Creator: Agora

Teachers & studentsInfluenceCriticismdisputedlater traditionWill-o'-the-wisp Star size = links on this map, not importance. Time axis not to scale – spacing follows how many thinkers are on the map in each period.

Keyboard: / opens the search, Escape closes panels, arrow keys move through a journey or the map, + and − zoom, 0 recenters the map.

Agora

An open square of thought

No idea begins from nothing.

This map traces more than 4,000 years of philosophy as a web of teaching, influence and critique – from Ptahhotep to the present. Follow the lines and you see how questions travel across centuries, schools and continents. Hegel would have called it the self-movement of spirit – and left half of it out. We drew stars.

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Agora is an open draft: carefully made, but not finished. Contributions are welcome.

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