revmike.us/philhistory.gif - a useful chart for your wall.
Sweetie for whoever spots the mistake.
The mistake is placing Kant at the top of the list…
hehe, nope…
Neat, well done. But why did you stop at Kant? He isn’t the be all and end all type of philosopher some make him out to be, he had influences and relations to other philisophical schools just like anyone else on this list.
SIATD I agree, Kant does seems to be placed on a higher plane then everyone else. For example, I can’t find David Hume (1711-1776), what’s with that? He needs to be in this chart! Kants a dog turd by comparison.
One mistake is that Derrida appears to still be alive.
Well spotted. I thought instinctively that it would be a problem of dates…
Yes that’s well spotted. By the way this isn’t my chart, I just found it. There’s another mistake I’ve just spotted too. Philosophy at the top is spelled without the second ‘o’. Fascinating.
Can anyone see where Deleuze is?
Am I the only one that can’t read the writing on the link?
I know I’m old, but come on…
Kropotkin
I think that it’s a pic that you have to click to enlarge
Or maybe you’re pulling our respective legs…
The flow-chart actually reunites more mistakes than it would be necessary. Time has revealed them to me, however my short memory made me forget to post them earlier.
Most of the formal errors concern dates. I will not delve in any ‘connection’ errors.
Marx: 1816, died in 1883, not 1833.
Schleiermacher didn’t live 166 years, as it might appear, having died in 1834.
Schlick lived and loved during the years 1882-1936
Unfortunately, Peter Strawson died in February this year, but that only suggests that the chart is outdated and no more.
Now, although my sources tell that Alexius Meinong died in 1920, not 1921, I’ll leave it here.
a few things:
(1) He seems to be starting with Kant (as the title suggests: modernism since Kant). That would be why Hume isn’t in there.
(2) His formal education of philosophy is little if even existent. His undergrad is in Mechanical Engineering. His graduate degree is a seminary degree in “ministry.” As having looked at both fields (particularly the seminary one), it is certain that his exposure to philosophy is limited to two or three classes.
(3) He puts Kierkegaard as being strictly from Hegel and Schleiermacher, forgetting that S.K. references Jacobi nearly as often as Schleiermacher…and seems to agree with Jacobi more than the others.
(4) He seems to pigeon-hole people rather than show any kind of engagement with their works. If he had engaged in the works, he would probably have a different list with different names and different links. His failure to include people like Deleuze and Lacan shows how little he understands of later philosophy.
Yes and his site has a big neon ‘I HAVE AN AGENDA’ sign on it. Sorry, should have checked before recommending. It’s still quite neat though.