Philosophy
Systematic study of fundamental questions about existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language.
Core metadata
- ID: philosophy
- Era: Classical
- First known date: -600 (century)
- Region: Ancient Greece/Ionia, with parallel classical traditions in South Asia and China
- Review status: source_checked
- Maturity: N/A
Prerequisites
- Early Astronomical Observation (early_astronomy_observation)
- Oral Tradition & Storytelling (oral_tradition_storytelling)
- Tribalism (tribalism)
- Writing (writing)
Dependents
- AI Governance & Ethics Frameworks (Robust) (ai_governance_ethics_frameworks_robust)
- AI Value Alignment Problem (ai_value_alignment_problem)
- Alchemy (alchemy)
- Algorithms & Computation Theory (algorithms_computation_theory)
- Analytic Geometry (analytic_geometry)
- Anatomy (Early Studies) (anatomy_early_studies)
- Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) (artificial_general_intelligence)
- Artificial Intelligence (Early) (artificial_intelligence_early)
- Astronomy (astronomy)
- Early Ballistics (ballistics_early)
- Chivalry (chivalry)
- Citizenship as Legal Concept (citizenship_as_legal_concept)
- Early Civil Service Examinations (civil_service_examinations_early)
- Classical Historiography (Herodotus, Thucydides) (classical_historiography_herodotus_thucydides)
- Classical Sculpture (classical_sculpture)
- Advanced Consciousness Studies (consciousness_studies_advanced)
- Cybernetics (cybernetics)
- Democracy & Republicanism (democracy_republicanism)
- Digital Physics (Simulated Reality Research) (digital_physics_simulated_reality_research)
- Early Medicine (early_medicine)
- Early Optics (early_optics)
- Epicureanism (epicureanism)
- Fine Arts (Medieval) (fine_arts_medieval)
- Formal Logic (Syllogism) (formal_logic_syllogism)
- Geocentric Model (Ptolemaic) (geocentric_model_ptolemaic)
- Heliocentrism (Copernicus) (heliocentrism_copernicus)
- Humanism (humanism)
- Humoral Theory (humoral_theory)
- Legal Systems (Common/Civil Law) (legal_systems_common_civil)
- Classical Liberalism (liberalism_classical)
- Marxism & Communism (marxism_communism)
- Medical Ethics (medical_ethics)
- Monasticism and Scriptoriums (monasticism_and_scriptoria)
- Political Philosophy (Machiavelli) (political_philosophy_machiavelli)
- Psychoanalysis (Freudian Theory) (psychoanalysis_freudian_theory)
- Experimental Psychology (psychology_experimental)
- Relativity (Special & General) (relativity_special_general)
- Rhetoric (rhetoric)
- Roman Law (roman_law)
- Scholasticism (scholasticism)
- Scientific Method (scientific_method)
- Sentience Engineering (Artificial Consciousness Creation) (sentience_engineering_artificial_consciousness_creation)
- Socialism (Early Theories) (socialism_early_theories)
- Classical Sociology (sociology_classical_theories_durkheim_weber)
- Sociology (Early) (sociology_early)
- Stoicism (stoicism)
- The Reformation (the_reformation)
- Theater (theater)
- Transhumanist Philosophy (transhumanist_philosophy)
- Universities (universities)
Fields
- None.
Node sources
- Presocratic Philosophy (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2012, textbook) • Supports: node
Prerequisite edge evidence
Edge/source evidence summary:
- Prerequisite edges: 4
- Average edge confidence: 54%
- Prerequisite sources: 4
- expert_inference: 2
- textbook: 1
- weak_inference: 1
| Prerequisite | Type | Confidence | Evidence level | Note | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Writing (writing) | historical_predecessor | 70% | textbook | Surviving philosophical traditions are reconstructed through written fragments and testimonia, though philosophy itself was not purely a writing technology. |
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| Oral Tradition & Storytelling (oral_tradition_storytelling) | historical_predecessor | 58% | expert_inference | Mythic, poetic, and oral explanation formed an earlier intellectual background that philosophy partly departed from. |
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| Early Astronomical Observation (early_astronomy_observation) | common_dependency | 50% | expert_inference | Early Greek inquiry included celestial and terrestrial explanation; astronomy is contextual knowledge, not a prerequisite for all philosophy. |
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| Tribalism (tribalism) | common_dependency | 40% | weak_inference | Small-scale social organization is background human context and should not be treated as a hard prerequisite for philosophy. |
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