Influence

The Web of Ideas

Every arrow is a debt. Hover a thinker to see who they shaped and who shaped them.

Vol. 1 · Greece

Vol. 2 · Rome

Vol. 3 · China

Vol. 4 · Islam

Vol. 5 · India

Vol. 6 · Medieval

Vol. 7 · Early Modern

Vol. 8 · Enlightenment

Vol. 9 · Modern

Vol. 10 · Contemporary

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Vol. 3 · China

Laozi Confucius Sun Tzu Mozi Liezi Yang Zhu Shang Yang Mencius Hui Shi Zhuangzi Shen Dao Gongsun Long Xunzi Zou Yan Han Feizi Dong Zhongshu Wang Chong

Vol. 4 · Islam

Al-Kindi Al-Razi Al-Farabi Al-Ash'ari Ibn al-Haytham Al-Biruni Ibn Sina Ibn Hazm Omar Khayyam Al-Ghazali Ibn Bajja Ibn Tufayl Ibn Rushd Fakhr al-Din al-Razi Suhrawardi Ibn Arabi Nasir al-Din al-Tusi Ibn Khaldun

Vol. 5 · India

Kanada Kapila Mahavira The Buddha Panini Chanakya Jaimini Patanjali Badarayana Ashvaghosha Nagarjuna Akshapada Gautama Vasubandhu Bhartrhari Dignaga Dharmakirti Adi Shankara Ramanuja Madhva

Vol. 6 · Medieval

Augustine Boethius John Scotus Eriugena Anselm Peter Abelard Hugh of Saint Victor Hildegard of Bingen John of Salisbury Maimonides Albertus Magnus Roger Bacon Bonaventure Thomas Aquinas Meister Eckhart Duns Scotus William of Ockham Christine de Pizan Nicholas of Cusa

Vol. 7 · Early Modern

Niccolò Machiavelli Montaigne Giordano Bruno Francis Bacon Galileo Galilei Thomas Hobbes Descartes Elisabeth of Bohemia Pascal Margaret Cavendish Anne Conway Spinoza John Locke Leibniz Pierre Bayle George Berkeley

Vol. 8 · Enlightenment

Giambattista Vico Montesquieu Voltaire David Hume Jean-Jacques Rousseau Denis Diderot Adam Smith Baron d'Holbach Immanuel Kant Edmund Burke Moses Mendelssohn Thomas Paine Condorcet Johann Gottfried Herder Jeremy Bentham Olympe de Gouges Mary Wollstonecraft

Hover or focus a dot to see their connections. Arrows point from influencer → influenced.