Schools of Thought – Levent Korkmaz

學Rivers of Wisdom

Every school is a river: it rises somewhere, carries what its thinkers poured into it, and feeds the rivers after it. This map is harvested from the Rivers of Wisdom database — each station is a school, each balloon its one-sentence course.

Roots end on the left: the old waters. Works end on the right: where the rivers run now. Hover a station to read it; click to visit its page.

根The Roots

where thought rises: the old waters

The Ancients
Presocratic principles, the School of Athens, the Hellenistic ways of life: where every later river rises.
1. The Presocratics
  principles: water, fire, the one
2. Athens
  the Academy, the Lyceum, the agora
3. The Hellenistic Ways
  philosophy as a way of life
4. Rome and the Law
  codes, precedents, provinces
The Faiths
The theologies and the mystical traditions: monotheist, Indian, Chinese — and the Sufi road inward.
1. The Eastern Ways
  Tao, dharma, the uncarved block
2. The Monotheist Rivers
  one god, many schisms
3. The Inner Roads
  the mystics of every faith
4. The Study of Religion
  religion observed and compared
The Letters
Classical literature and the study of language: theatre, romanticism, philology, the fantastic.
1. The Classical Page
  Greek and Latin letters, the stage
2. The Romantic Turn
  imagination against mechanism
3. The Tongues
  philology and the science of language
4. The Anatolian Shelf
  Ottoman letters and their decline
The Academy
The scientific revolution and the academic disciplines: evolution, physics, the brain, history, the measure of sensation.
1. The Revolution
  Copernicus to Newton, and onward
2. The Life Sciences
  Darwin and everything alive
3. The Measured Mind
  sensation, neuron, threshold
4. The Humanities
  history, anthropology, the human record

果The Works

where the rivers run now

The Mind
Psychoanalysis and its children: therapy, self-help, the well-being sciences — the soul market’s supply side.
1. The Depths
  the unconscious discovered
2. The Experiments
  the soul measured in the lab
3. The Care of the Soul
  therapy, self-help, well-being
4. The Soul Market
  where care is bought and sold
The Society
The Enlightenment settlement and its auditors: contract, utility, economics, sociology, the political schools.
1. The Settlement
  the Enlightenment and its contracts
2. The Ledgers
  utility, money, the measured market
3. The Auditors
  sociology reads the social book
4. The Polis
  the political schools
The Stories
Science fiction and the genre rivers, flowing into cinema, television and games.
1. The Futures
  science fiction and its children
2. The Mirrors
  realism and the mind-benders
3. The Screen
  cinema and the long series
The Renaissances
Renaissance humanism, the AI-mirror movement, and Carematics: the school this site is built to carry.
1. The First Rebirth
  humanism, method, utopia
2. The Second Rebirth
  AI as the mirror of humanity
3. The Care Line
  from the ethics of care to Carematics