Paragraphos

A journal of
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About ParagraphosBudapest · 2026
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Intellectual atlas

Traditions

Paragraphos does not treat philosophy as a single line moving west to east or ancient to modern. Traditions overlap, borrow, translate, argue, and survive.

c. 700 BCE to present

Indian

Self, liberation, knowledge, logic, action, and language.

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c. 600 BCE to present

Chinese

Cultivation, order, relation, spontaneity, language, and the Way.

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c. 600 BCE to 600 CE

Ancient Greek

Being, change, knowledge, virtue, politics, nature, and the good life.

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c. 5th century BCE to present

Buddhist

Suffering, impermanence, no-self, mind, knowledge, and liberation.

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c. 800 CE to present

Islamic

Reason, revelation, metaphysics, law, medicine, and intellectual inheritance.

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Antiquity to present

African

Personhood, community, knowledge, ethics, language, and decolonial thought.

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11 published readings

  1. 01THE SELFYājñavalkya · Early Buddhist thought · David Hume · Questions of self across traditions · 15 minLineage
  2. 02HOW DO YOU SEARCH FOR WHAT YOU DO NOT KNOW?Plato · Classical Greek philosophy · Platonic philosophy · 16 minClose Reading
  3. 03THE SELF YOU CANNOT FINDEarly Buddhist thought · David Hume · Early Buddhist thought / Scottish Enlightenment · 15 minDialogue
  4. 04THE VIEW FROM HEREZhuang Zhou / Zhuangzi tradition · Classical Chinese thought / Zhuangzi tradition · 9 min readPassage
  5. 05THE ROAD YOU CANNOT TAKEParmenides of Elea · Early Greek thought · Eleatic philosophy · 14 minClose Reading
  6. 06THIS IS NOT MINEThe Buddha · Early Buddhist thought · 13 minClose Reading
  7. 07WHERE DOES PHILOSOPHY BEGIN?Paragraphos · Comparative inquiry · 10 min readEssay
  8. 08WHEN DESIRE LEARNS THE MEASUREConfucius · Classical Chinese thought · 7 min readPassage
  9. 09THE SEER CANNOT BE SEENYājñavalkya · Early Upaniṣadic thought · 9 min readClose Reading
  10. 10DO NOT LISTEN TO MEHeraclitus · Early Greek thought · 12 min readClose Reading
  11. 11Why Paragraphos?Paragraphos · Editorial · 6 minEditorial