Falsafa — a living library of philosophy and classics

2,030 works · 25,618 chapters · 634 authors · 10 languages, from Vedic Sanskrit to Victorian English — a living library, growing as it is read.

the state of the library

as of September 20, 2026

Works carried into English originals kept beside the translation: 2,030
Chapters set for reading prose, verse and manuscript: 25,618
Addressable passages every paragraph a stable, citable anchor: 1,417,075
Entities mapped in the atlas figures, ideas, places, peoples and more: 38,998
Citations traced, stance-typed authority · endorsed · refuted · extended: 14,433
Verbatim quotations anchored each tied to the passage that carries it: 358,947
The harvest, under way the atlas grows on its own — every page redrawn from the data at each build: 1,613 / 1,639

the shape of the corpus

2,030 works

Where the works fall in time — a Greco-Roman summit, a quiet medieval trough, a second wave after 1800. Each bar opens its era.

37 Ancient 327 Classical 201 Hellenistic 521 Imperial 150 Late Antiquity 19 Medieval 30 Renaissance 75 Enlightenment 242 19th Century 251 20th Century

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the atlas

38,998 entities so far

A map of the library drawn from the texts themselves: 10,207 figures, 9,141 ideas, 3,266 places, 5,831 groups — and every citation, stance-typed. No claim without a verbatim quotation; every entry links to the exact paragraph that carries it. It grows on its own as the harvest reads deeper.

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But the poetry of Homer alone do I truly see to be noble, magnificent, and kingly, the poetry to which a man ought to give his mind—above all a man who is to rule over whatever men there may be anywhere, or, failing that, over the most numerous and most renowned;

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Cynewulf

An Old English poem recounting the life and missionary journey of Saint Andrew among the cannibalistic Mermedonians. A vivid example of Anglo-Saxon heroic Christian poetry.

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why this library exists

Every classical text that survives was carried

Aristotle did not reach you in Greek alone. He reached you because a patriarch in Baghdad, a monk on the Euphrates, a judge in Cordoba and a wandering Scot each decided one book was worth the labor of another language. Falsafa is that practice continued for the newest readers, human and machine. The argument has a book and an atlas behind it.

Carried Across, the book The atlas

under the hood

A librarian, with no vector database

The corpus ships as markdown with stable paragraph IDs and ten deterministic tools, so any AI can read it and cite it honestly. The evals, the thesis and the live demo live in the engine room.

The engine room