Mapping Hegel's System in d3.js
'What kind of philosophy might emerge if thought tried to think itself with as few presuppositions as possible?' Someone once asked, and now we have an interactive toy to play around with.
Interactive map: https://observablehq.com/@mikaelau/co...
Hegel was a systematic philosopher with substantial ambition; he wrote some books and some books have been written about him. Moreover, he explicitly said that philosophy is, in a sense, a circle of circles. So this visualization takes the (unstable) categories of his system and puts them into circles within circles.
01:00 Philosophy bit
12:00 Data bit
18:00 Code bit
Code used to transform CSV to JSON: https://pastebin.com/US2EBFEX
Source CSV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PfJ8...
You can access the JSON from the Observable deployment, or else here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1P5xw...
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