The map
What’s here, and what’s coming
A full year: 365 daily lessons over 52 weeks, plus 20 optional bonus lessons, covering all 55 schools of thought. New lessons and schools are added over time.
Ancient Greek and Roman
9 of 9 schools have lessons · 45 lessons
✓ Platonism (5) ✓ Aristotelianism (7) ✓ Stoicism (12) ✓ Epicureanism (6) ✓ Cynicism (2) ✓ The Presocratics (4) ✓ The Sophists (3) ✓ Pyrrhonism (3) ✓ Neoplatonism (3)
Indian philosophy, the orthodox schools
6 of 6 schools have lessons · 18 lessons
✓ Nyaya (3) ✓ Vaisheshika (2) ✓ Samkhya (2) ✓ Yoga (2) ✓ Mimamsa (3) ✓ Vedanta (6)
Non-Vedic traditions
4 of 4 schools have lessons · 13 lessons
✓ Buddhism (3) ✓ Jainism (3) ✓ Madhyamaka (4) ✓ Charvaka (3)
Chinese philosophy
6 of 6 schools have lessons · 23 lessons
✓ Confucianism (8) ✓ Daoism (2) ✓ Legalism (2) ✓ Zhuangzi’s Daoism (3) ✓ Zen (5) ✓ Mohism (3)
Faith and reason, 1000 to 1700
5 of 5 schools have lessons · 24 lessons
✓ Falsafa (6) ✓ The Masnavi (2) ✓ Scholasticism (10) ✓ Sor Juana’s right to study (3) ✓ Ibn Khaldun’s science of society (3)
Enlightenment and knowledge
6 of 6 schools have lessons · 49 lessons
✓ Rationalism (7) ✓ Empiricism (5) ✓ Kantianism (6) ✓ The philosophes (6) ✓ Utilitarianism (4) ✓ The social contract (21)
Existence and experience
5 of 5 schools have lessons · 28 lessons
✓ Existentialism (4) ✓ The ethics of ambiguity (3) ✓ Nihilism (7) ✓ Absurdism (5) ✓ Phenomenology (9)
History, power and critique
3 of 3 schools have lessons · 10 lessons
✓ Hegelian dialectic (3) ✓ Marxism (3) ✓ Critical theory (4)
Modern and contemporary
5 of 5 schools have lessons · 18 lessons
✓ Pragmatism (5) ✓ Analytic philosophy (3) ✓ Feminist philosophy (4) ✓ Arendt’s politics of action (3) ✓ The Kyoto School (3)
Philosophy lived in community
6 of 6 schools have lessons · 19 lessons
✓ Satyagraha (3) ✓ Ubuntu (4) ✓ Bearing witness (3) ✓ The Poet-Sages (3) ✓ Akan philosophy (3) ✓ Indigenous philosophies (3)
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