Visual Philosophy Notes | Kaan Demiryürek

Philosophy Notes

This page gathers my visual philosophy notes and reflections on thinkers who have shaped my thinking, from Heidegger and Avicenna to Nietzsche and Kant. These are curated visual maps, often shared first in smaller pieces before being brought together here.

Grand Map of Near Eastern and Western Philosophers

A single visual map connecting the key ideas from major philosophers

Download The Grand Map

Individual Philosophers

Click a philosopher to explore my hand-drawn visual summary of their key ideas

Socrates Philosophy Notes — Socrates

Plato Philosophy Notes — Plato

Aristotle Philosophy Notes — Aristotle

Hypatia Philosophy Notes — Hypatia

Al-Farabi Philosophy Notes — Al-Farabi

Al-Biruni Philosophy Notes — Al-Biruni

Al Ghazali Philosophy Notes — Al-Ghazali

Averroes Philosophy Notes — Ibn Rushd (Averroes)

St. Augustine of Hippo Philosophy Notes — St. Augustine of Hippo

Thomas Aquinas Philosophy Notes — St. Thomas Aquinas

Erasmus Philosophy Notes — Erasmus

Machiavelli Philosophy Notes — Machiavelli

Thomas Hobbes

René Descartes

Blaise Pascal

Baruch Spinoza

John Locke

Gottfried Leibniz

David Hume

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Adam Smith

Immanuel Kant

GWF Hegel

Søren Kierkegaard

Karl Marx

Friedrich Nietzsche

Martin Heidegger

Albert Camus

Continental Rationalists vs. British Empiricists

A one-page summary of three European rationalists (Descartes|Spinoza|Leibniz) against three British Empiricists (Locke|Hume|Hobbes)