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Currently reading my way through the Syntopicon and the associated Great Works series. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Syntopicon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
by Balgair 4y ago
Currently reading my way through the Syntopicon and the associated Great Works series.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Syntopicon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Syntopicon
Think a 1960s version of a linking table, all printed out, and all about the 'ideas' in the Western canon.
A randomly selected sample of the categorization looks like:
Chapter 82: Same and Other: Sub Idea 3: The modes of sameness and otherness or diversity: Sub Idea 3a: Essential sameness or difference and accidental sameness or difference:
Book 7: Plato Republic, BK V, 358 360
Book 8: Aristotle Topics, BK 1 CH 5, 144 - 145
etc. for ~1/4th of a page.
Should finish up in ~2035 or so if I can keep pace.
If you ever have to write on nearly any topic, the Syntopicon is absolute pure 100% gold. You can look up just about any idea you've got and find just oodles of references going back to Homer. Its amazing.
I wish we could make a wiki based on the structure of a syntopicon instead of the structure of an encyclopedia. It'd be a lot of effort, but just an amazing undertaking to relate all of the internet via ideas instead of subjects.