{"repo":"iwe-org/seventeen-centuries","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/iwe-org/seventeen-centuries","clone":"git clone https://github.com/iwe-org/seventeen-centuries.git","description":"A knowledge graph across seventeen centuries of philosophy — Marcus Aurelius to Machiavelli to Nietzsche, built with IWE","language":null,"stars":10,"topics":["digital-humanities","knowledge-graph","markdown","philosophy"],"license":null,"category":"cli-tools","readme_excerpt":"Seventeen Centuries A knowledge graph connecting three philosophical texts across seventeen centuries—from Marcus Aurelius (170 AD) to Machiavelli (1513) to Nietzsche (1886)—exploring how ideas of virtue, power, and morality evolved through time. Overview This project transforms philosophical texts into an interconnected knowledge graph using iwe, a CLI tool for managing markdown document graphs with inclusion links. The graph is hierarchical with polyhierarchy support —documents can belong to multiple parent documents simultaneously. A concept like \"virtue\" can appear under both a book index and a thematic category, reflecting how knowledge naturally connects across domains. The graph contains 1,200+ documents including: - 838 text fragments from three books - 340+ concept files linking philosophical ideas, historical figures, and themes - Category documents organizing concepts into navigable groupings Highlights Some concept files reveal how the same idea carries different meanings across philosophers: virtue.md — For Marcus Aurelius, virtue is acting according to nature and reason, serving the common good as naturally as the eye sees. Machiavelli inverts this: a prince who acts entirely virtuously will be ruined among so much evil. Nietzsche warns against becoming enslaved to one's own virtues, noting that every virtue inclines toward stupidity. Articles The knowledge graph serves as a foundation for new comparative writing. These articles are built on top of the extracted","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/iwe-org","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/iwe-org/seventeen-centuries/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}