The Map of Philosophy · every tradition, one landscape
🧭 From the Axial Age to now

Every tradition,
one landscape

This is a four-volume atlas of philosophy — the West, the Eastern & world traditions, the modern mind, and the perennial questions every age keeps asking. Every school is a card, and every card is a door into a deeper page.

Start with Volume I · The West →
The Axial Age & after — six traditions, one timeline
Hover any dot
Timeline is best on a wider screen — here are the figures by tradition:
Philosophy ignites in parallel across civilizations ~2,500 years ago — and never stops. Hover any dot.

·Six branches, six colors

Every card in the atlas is tinted by the kind of question it chases. Six colors, six questions — click one to light up its dots on the timeline above.

·Four volumes

The atlas splits into four books. Start anywhere — each one stands on its own, and they all link back here.

I The West Pre-Socratics to the 19th century: the long Greek-to-German arc. ~50 schools II Eastern & World Indian, Buddhist, Chinese, Japanese, Islamic, Jewish, African and more — eight living traditions, not one "East". ~60 schools III The Modern Mind 1850 to now: analytic vs. continental, and the movements still arguing. ~40 movements IV Branches & Great Problems The cross-cut: the branches of philosophy and the perennial questions every tradition keeps circling. ~26 cards

·The questions that never close

Strip away the schools and the same handful of questions stare back. Every tradition has its own answer — and none of them are finished.

Do we have free will? What is the mind? Does God exist? What makes an act right? What is justice? Can we know anything for certain? What stays the same as you change? What is the meaning of life?

Explored in Volume IV →