An Atlas of Philosophy · 2,600 Years of Thought

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An interactive explorer charting 244 philosophers, 424 intellectual connections, and 63 schools across 2,600 years of ideas that shaped the world.

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Ancient
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Eastern Ancient
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Medieval
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Islamic Golden Age
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Renaissance
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Early Modern
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Modern
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Contemporary
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Most Connected Thinkers

The philosophers with the deepest web of influence in our atlas.

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Martin Heidegger
1889 – 1976
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192
Karl Marx
1818 – 1883
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126
Immanuel Kant
1724 – 1804
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126
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
1770 – 1831
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Plato
c. 428 BCE – c. 348 BCE
Featured Philosopher

Leopoldo Zea
1912 – 2004 · Contemporary

Leopoldo Zea was Mexico's most systematic philosopher of Latin American identity and historical consciousness, whose lifework traced the emergence, dependency, and potential emancipation of Latin American thought from European intellectual colonialism. Drawing on Hegel, Ortega y Gasset, and Gaos's 'philosophy of circumstance,' Zea argued that Latin American philosophy, long dismissed …

“Latin American philosophy is not a philosophy in the margins of universal philosophy but philosophy itself, insofar as it confronts the problems of man as they arise in the Latin …”

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