This is a project that I have been working on for about a year now. It all began as part of my personal quest to reach an understanding of and a justification for my set of personal moral and ethical beliefs. In order to help me work out some of my own ideas, I decided to work my way through the 84-part lecture series offered by Teach 21 titled " Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 3rd Edition". The course is an amazing journey, starting with Plato and working its way through to the modern era.
Along the way, I decided to make a mind map covering each of the major thinkers that have influenced western philosophy. This is my version of a "cheat sheet of philosophy", and I decided that it might be worth sharing with others. It is by no means complete or comprehensive. It probably does infringe on the copyright of Teach 21 and the lecturers whose notes I cribbed from liberally. I can only hope that they don't send me a DMCA Take Down Request. So until then, here it is.
It goes in approximately chronological order, starting with the Greeks and working clockwise around to the modern thinkers. I try to give a summary of what I found useful or important about each thinker, and probably have overlooked, oversimplified and overstated quite a few things.
If I've made any egregious errors, please leave a comment and I'll fix what I can:
Along the way, I decided to make a mind map covering each of the major thinkers that have influenced western philosophy. This is my version of a "cheat sheet of philosophy", and I decided that it might be worth sharing with others. It is by no means complete or comprehensive. It probably does infringe on the copyright of Teach 21 and the lecturers whose notes I cribbed from liberally. I can only hope that they don't send me a DMCA Take Down Request. So until then, here it is.
It goes in approximately chronological order, starting with the Greeks and working clockwise around to the modern thinkers. I try to give a summary of what I found useful or important about each thinker, and probably have overlooked, oversimplified and overstated quite a few things.
If I've made any egregious errors, please leave a comment and I'll fix what I can:
