Philosophers — Philosophy Arena

Philosophers: 148
Works: 843
Passages: 298k+
Centuries spanned: 26

When the thinkers were born — philosophers per century

148 philosophers, born across 26 centuries from the 7th c. BCE to the 19th c. CE. The 19th c. CE is the fullest, with 29.

Philosophers born, by century
Century	Philosophers born
7th c. BCE	3
6th c. BCE	3
5th c. BCE	2
4th c. BCE	2
3rd c. BCE	3
2nd c. BCE	4
1st c. BCE	4
1st c. CE	4
2nd c. CE	4
3rd c. CE	1
4th c. CE	5
5th c. CE	6
6th c. CE	1
7th c. CE	4
8th c. CE	1
9th c. CE	4
10th c. CE	4
11th c. CE	10
12th c. CE	4
13th c. CE	5
14th c. CE	3
15th c. CE	3
16th c. CE	9
17th c. CE	9
18th c. CE	21
19th c. CE	29

Which traditions they come from — philosophers per tradition

148 philosophers across 6 traditions. Widths are shares of the roster; the names are in the legend.

The Western tradition 87
The Indian tradition 29
The Chinese tradition 15
The Japanese tradition 6
The Jewish tradition 6
The Islamic and Persian tradition 5

Philosophers by tradition
Tradition	Philosophers	Share
The Western tradition	87	59%
The Indian tradition	29	20%
The Chinese tradition	15	10%
The Japanese tradition	6	4%
The Jewish tradition	6	4%
The Islamic and Persian tradition	5	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 11.5%. 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	11.5%
Metaphysics and the cosmos	10%
Politics and power	9.5%
Ethics and the good life	7.8%
Logic and language	4.4%
Being and existence	4.1%

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Yogachara

Yogācāra, the Buddhist school also called "consciousness only", holds that everything we experience is the mind's own representation, with no objects standing outside it. The appearance of a world of separate things grows from seeds that past actions leave in the *ālayavijñāna*, a storehouse consciousness flowing beneath ordinary awareness. Against Madhyamaka, which holds that nothing has a nature of its own, Yogācāra holds the mind's dependent process to be real: what is empty is the split into subject and object, not the mind in which it appears.

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Vasubandhu
320–400
Sutra and Classical

Vasubandhu, Buddhist master of the Abhidharma and of Yogācāra, analysed the person without a self and argued that all experience is representation only.
7 works · 1,626 passages grounded

Yoga

Yoga, as a school of Indian philosophy, is built on the *Yoga Sūtras* ascribed to Patañjali. It shares Sāṃkhya's picture of the person: a conscious self that only watches, and an active, unconscious nature that it mistakes for itself. Yoga sets out the practice that leads to release: a path of eight limbs, from ethical restraints, posture and breath control to meditation and absorption, *samādhi*. The goal is *kaivalya*, "isolation", the self standing apart from nature. Unlike classical Sāṃkhya, Yoga names a God.