Philosophers — Philosophy Arena

Philosophers: 38
Works: 291
Passages: 112,227
Centuries spanned: 24

When the thinkers were born — philosophers per century

38 philosophers, born across 15 centuries from the 6th c. BCE to the 19th c. CE. The 18th c. CE is the fullest, with 14.

Philosophers born, by century
Century	Philosophers born
6th c. BCE	1
5th c. BCE	1
4th c. BCE	2
2nd c. BCE	1
1st c. BCE	1
1st c. CE	1
2nd c. CE	1
4th c. CE	1
5th c. CE	1
13th c. CE	2
15th c. CE	1
16th c. CE	2
17th c. CE	3
18th c. CE	14
19th c. CE	6

Which traditions they come from — philosophers per tradition

38 philosophers across 2 traditions. Widths are shares of the roster; the names are in the legend.

The Western tradition 37
The Chinese tradition 1

Philosophers by tradition
Tradition	Philosophers	Share
The Western tradition	37	97%
The Chinese tradition	1	3%

What the corpus argues about — share of the canon per question

The six great questions, ranked by their share of every tagged passage in the corpus. Mind and knowledge leads at 15.3%. A passage can answer to more than one question, so the six do not sum to a whole.

Share of the canon by question
Question	Share of the canon
Mind and knowledge	15.3%
Politics and power	11.5%
Ethics and the good life	9.6%
Metaphysics and the cosmos	9%
Logic and language	5.3%
Being and existence	4.5%

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2 philosophers match

The Western tradition

2 in the arena

Marxism

Marxism holds that social and political institutions develop from material conditions, especially the organisation of production, and that history advances through conflict between classes with opposed economic interests. Its analysis of nineteenth-century capitalism distinguishes it from socialism defined only by support for collective ownership: Marxism explains how capitalism arose, how it reproduces class divisions, and how class struggle could transform it.

2 in the arena

Karl Marx
1818–1883
The Nineteenth Century

The critique that found exploitation inside the ordinary exchange of wages and commodities
10 works · 5,294 passages grounded
Friedrich Engels
1820–1895
The Nineteenth Century

Factory smoke and crowded housing became an indictment of capitalism’s claim to progress.
4 works · 1,312 passages grounded

When the thinkers were born — philosophers per century

Which traditions they come from — philosophers per tradition

What the corpus argues about — share of the canon per question

Karl Marx

Friedrich Engels