Atlas Trail
How Philosophers Disagree
A path through thirteen philosophers this wave added to the atlas, chosen not for chronology but for the live arguments running between them: Hume and Kant on causation, Plato and Aristotle on the reality of Forms, Epicurus's school against Zeno's, Peirce against James on what pragmatism even means, and Rawls against utilitarianism on what justice behind a veil of ignorance would actually choose.
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Philosophers
Pleasure as the absence of disturbance, and a physics with no room for divine punishment.
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Schools of Philosophy
The school Epicurus founded, and Stoicism's standing rival for the rest of antiquity.
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Philosophers
Skepticism about causation that Kant said woke him from dogmatic slumber.
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Philosophers
The Critique of Pure Reason's answer, and the categorical imperative's flat rejection of utilitarian calculation.
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Philosophers
A veil of ignorance, and an explicit rejection of the utilitarianism Bentham founded.
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Philosophers
A founder whose own existence as a single person is an open question this atlas records rather than resolves.
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Philosophers
Being and Time's reopening of the question of Being, and a philosophy inseparable from a still-unsettled political controversy.
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Philosophers
Heidegger's student, and the banality of evil, a thesis as contested as it is famous.
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