I am a sucker for these sorts of things. But this looks amazing–though I haven’t been able to find Michael Polanyi. Visit Drunks and Lampposts for the full story.
I am a sucker for these sorts of things. But this looks amazing–though I haven’t been able to find Michael Polanyi. Visit Drunks and Lampposts for the full story.
How Deleuzian. *Canned Laughter*
It is interesting to see that there are no direct lines of connection between the “Bible” (upper right diagonal from Plontinus) and “Augustine of Hippo”. Apparently scholars need to do a little historical revision… Oh and lest we forget Stefan Molyneux has most direct influence on the history of philosophy than scripture…go figure. 🙂 Maybe this graph is a better representation of philosophical influence is today’s society than its historical development. Of course maybe if I write an article in Wikipedia and connect with every major name in the history of philosophy I, myself could become one the great influences in the post post-modern arena of Western Philosophy. Finally my place in hagiography… (I had to have a little fun with this one.) But seriously it is interesting and it looks like there are legitimate influences in the graph. Not surprised with Kant.
Nice observation. Yes, I imagine that there quite a few problems like that! For instance, Michael Polanyi seems not to have made the chart. For shame. Yet, I think that it gives a generally fair account of things. I was a bit surprised by Noam Chomsky. He’s apparently kind of a big deal.