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Philosophy World

Socrates · Socrate

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

The threshold of the archive’s hall of ideas — where every question opens a door.

Enter · Socrates ▸ Wikipedia ↗
The Concepts les notions

The seventeen notions of the French Baccalauréat — and how philosophy has handled each. Open one to read its genealogy.

The Fields les champs
The Tools of Thought les repères

The conceptual distinctions — the pairs a thinker must be able to wield.

The Thinkers les penseurs

Waking the thinkers…

The deeper halls of Philosophy World — the schools, the debates, the timelines — are being arranged. For now, step through any field or thinker into the archive’s concept space.

The concepts and structure of this exhibit draw on the notions of the French Baccalauréat de philosophie — France’s national philosophy examination — referenced for educational purposes. Concepts and thinkers are our own summaries; each links out to Wikipedia for the fuller account.
D’après le programme de philosophie du Baccalauréat français