The History of Philosophy Visualized

Yes, total­ly reli­able!

I knew that Che Gue­vara was a philoso­pher

That Saus­sure and Piaget had much less influ­ence than, say, Der­ri­da

That the entire sto­icism had a very small influ­ence on west­ern thought

That Mur­ray Roth­bard was slight­ly more impor­tant than Thomas Aquinas

:)

This only tells how use­less the “influ­enced by” tag is, if com­plied by non-pro­fes­sion­als

This is very relat­ed to a visu­al­iza­tion project in which we visu­al­ized influ­ences and sim­i­lar­i­ties among philoso­phers, painters and musi­cians. We used sim­i­lar­i­ty in inter­est (or time) as implic­it rela­tions and direct­ed influ­ence con­nec­tions as explic­it rela­tions. We decid­ed against show­ing all the links all the time in favor of dif­fer­en­ti­at­ing between incom­ing and out­go­ing influ­ences. Check it out: http://mariandoerk.de/edgemaps/demo

RETITLUNG AND OR WIDENING THE SCOPE IF THE CANON OF OHILOSOPHY :

INTRO

To begin with;I appre­ci­ate the rather relaxed; enlight­ened ;sone­times orig­i­nal and light-heart­ed con­tent approach­es here.
Euro­pean con­tri­bu­tions to the study of phi­los­o­phy is immense.And the world is grate­ful for the archival and cur­rent con­tem­po­rary largesse of Europe in this .

I would like to sug­gest that you reti­tle your name to” Trea­tis­es of Euro­pean Phi­los­o­phy”
You seem to have appro­pri­at­ed the word phi­los­o­phy as to be of and ema­nat­ing from only your parochial lim­it­ed world where only 10% of human­i­ty resides.

Let us do our­selves ;our next gen­er­a­tion by widen­ing the scope of OpenCulture.com .
Include with­in the hori­zons of ohi­los­o­phy non-Euro­pean con­tri­bu­tions from Africa;from Asia;from The Amer­i­c­as etc.

Phi­los­o­phy cones nat­u­ral­ly to all of human­i­ty (and may be also to ani­mals) whether it gets pub­lished and “reecognized“or not or whether it is record­ed in this or that milieu or for­mat.

POVERTY OF TGE CANON OF OHILOSOPHY

It is pover­ty in the pur­suit of the study of philosoohy any­where in the wirld when we focus only on pri­mar­i­ly men;focus on the bougeois upper mid­dle class ;on only avail­able pub­lished mate­r­i­al .
Pover­ty here can be eas­i­ly git­ten rid of by widen­ing the scope of the pur­suit of tthe study of phi­los­o­phy.

Thanks

I just learn the site of Open Cul­ture and hope to find any valid expla­na­tion on the sig­nif­i­cant regres­sion of the West­ern phi­los­o­phy influ­ence to a sta­tus sim­i­lar to the latin tongue i.e.
near a dead cul­ture regard­ing the enlight­en­ment and safe­guard of our mankind.
Worst nowa­days West­ern phi­los­o­phy has turned out to be a joke as most West­erns reli­gions have become. And this is very sad to the mankind.