Don't know much about philosophy (NPhL Chinese, Curry and Caliphate division) open thread

by liberal japonicus
Those crazy folks over at Superscholar heard your complaints about the Eurocentric nature of the last chart and have come up with this. The title is a reference that I hope is obscure enough to keep the likes of y'all guessing, though whenever I think that, someone usually gets in within the first 3 comments.

 

Source: SuperScholar.org/

Comments

[Tom H.]

At first I thought "What a wonderful world it would be if everybody read this infographic?", but if the Internet is to be believed that song didn't actually include philosophy.

[wj]

I guess we will find out the age of our commenters by finding out who thinks that line (or at least, as Tom notes, the song into which that line would fit smoothly) is obscure. Personally, I had immediate thought of Wonderful World:
Don't know much about history,
Don't know much biology
...

But then, I grew up in high school with Sam Cooke singing it. Which made me exactly in the target audience.

[the once and future cleek]

i was thinking Wonderful World, too. but kept looking for something else, since that song seems like the opposite of obscure, to me.

[joel hanes]

Corey Hart "Lone Wolf" ?

That's certainly obscure.

[Countme-In]

Now my youth is obscure as well as gone.

[Amos Newcombe]

Socrates was not a 6th Century BCE thinker. Did they mean Pythagoras?

[liberal japonicus]

Actually, I was thinking of the "NPhL Chinese, Curry and Caliphate division"

[bobbyp]

Actually, I was thinking of the "NPhL Chinese, Curry and Caliphate division"

Could you hum a few bars for us?

[liberal japonicus]

Hint

[byomtov]

What else could it be but Wonderful World?

[City of Siddhis]

A few immediately found mistakes:

Kapila is the founder of Samkhya, not Mahavir. Adwaita is an orthodox vedic philosophy, not sure why they put it as a separate category.

[novakant]

Manichaeism was known to me only in its figurative sense until I read a book on the history of Iran recently - and I was surprised to find out that it was a massive movement on par with Christianity.

Great book btw, very readable - here's a short review: http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/books/book-review-iran-empire-of-the-mind-1-1301238

[liberal japonicus]

I wanted to put NPhL Eastern League, which would have been cute and kind of reminiscent of this video, but that was a bit obvious, then I remembered that back in the day, all of the NFL divisions began with a C (Capitol, Century, Coastal and Central). Hence the title.

[wj]

Ah, now that's obscure!