Knowledge & learning
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African sage philosophy
A modern scholarly project recognizing critical philosophical reflection by individual thinkers in African oral traditions.
Multiple communities · 5 highlights↗Luba lukasa memory boards
Luba lukasa are crafted memory boards interpreted by trained members of the mbudye association.
Democratic Republic of the Congo · 5 highlights↗Noongar knowledge and six seasons
Noongar knowledge relates Country, family, plants, animals, and the six locally observed seasons.
Noongar Boodja · Southwest Western Australia · 5 highlights↗Yolŋu law, art, and Country
Yolŋu communities express ancestral law, clan identity, and connection to Country through languages, art, and collective action.
Northeast Arnhem Land · Northern Australia · 5 highlights↗Torres Strait Islander knowledge
Island communities sustain distinct languages, Ailan Kastom, and relationships with sea, land, and sky.
Zenadth Kes · Torres Strait · 5 highlights↗Carolinian wayfinding and canoe making
Carolinian wayfinding brings together canoe construction, observation of sea and sky, apprenticeship, and communal labour.
Caroline Islands · Micronesia · 5 highlights↗Sámi árbediehtu
Árbediehtu is Sámi inherited and developing knowledge about people, land, language, and ways of living.
Northern Norway · Sweden · Finland · Kola Peninsula · 6 highlights↗Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit
Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit names Inuit knowledge, values, skills, and ways of learning that guide life in Nunavut.
Nunavut · Canada · 6 highlights↗Nyāya: reasoning and reliable knowledge
Nyāya asks how people know, test arguments, and correct error.
India · 6 highlights↗Socratic and Platonic inquiry
Socratic questioning and Plato's dialogues investigate virtue, knowledge, love, and the good life.
Athens · ancient Mediterranean · 5 highlights↗Pyrrhonian skepticism
Pyrrhonian skeptics investigate competing claims and suspend judgement where arguments balance.
Mediterranean · 5 highlights↗Confucian traditions
An evolving family of ethical and political traditions concerning learning, relationships, and good government.
China · Korea · Japan · Vietnam · 5 highlights↗Korean Confucian philosophy
Korean Confucian thinkers developed original debates about principle, material force, emotion, education, and government.
Korea · 5 highlights↗Neo-Confucian cultivation
Neo-Confucian thinkers developed new accounts of pattern, human nature, study, and moral cultivation.
China · later East Asia · 5 highlights↗Yijing and Chinese philosophy of change
The Yijing, or Book of Changes, is an ancient text used for divination and philosophical reflection.
China · 5 highlights↗Kyoto School philosophy
The Kyoto School is a twentieth century Japanese philosophical conversation, beginning with Nishida Kitarō, in dialogue with Buddhist and Western thought.
Japan · 5 highlights↗Nahua wisdom and poetry
Nahua thinkers and poets asked about life, mortality, knowledge, and the force of song.
Central Mexico · 5 highlights↗Jaina philosophy
A living tradition with rigorous ethics, accounts of living beings, and disciplined paths of liberation.
South Asia · 5 highlights↗Madhyamaka: the middle way and emptiness
Madhyamaka argues that things lack an independent, fixed nature because they arise through conditions.
India · Tibet · East Asia · 6 highlights↗Yogācāra: experience and the making of a world
Yogācāra examines how consciousness, habits, and interpretation shape experience.
India · East Asia · Tibet · 6 highlights↗Wajãpi kusiwa oral and graphic knowledge
Kusiwa is a Wajãpi system of graphic and oral expression whose patterns relate to stories, social life, and ways of knowing.
Amapá · Brazil · 6 highlights↗Qhapaq Ñan and Andean routes
Qhapaq Ñan is an Andean road system that connected places of trade, administration, travel, and worship.
Argentina · Bolivia · Chile · Colombia · Ecuador · Peru · 6 highlights↗Gunditjmara knowledge at Budj Bim
At Budj Bim, Gunditjmara knowledge connects Country, deep time, water engineering, kooyang aquaculture, and continuing cultural practice.
Western Victoria · Australia · 6 highlights↗Wiradjuri Yindyamarra
Yindyamarra is a Wiradjuri way of speaking about respect and how to live well in relationship.
Wiradjuri Country · Australia · 6 highlights↗Guna mola making and identity
Molas are hand-sewn textile panels made by Guna women and omeguiids, transgender men.
Guna territories · Panama and Colombia · 6 highlights↗Guaraní heritage in tereré and pohã ñana
Tereré with pohã ñana brings Guaraní-rooted plant knowledge into an everyday practice of gathering, sharing, and conversation in Paraguay.
Paraguay · 6 highlights↗