1

Create a card

Capture an idea, source, work, person, place, event, or question.

Concept

Justice

The question of what makes a society or political order just.

2

Connect cards

Define explicit relationships between individual research units.

Book

The Republic

Plato

Person

Plato

Philosopher

Concept

Justice

The question of what makes a society or political order just.

Place

Athens

A major city-state of the ancient Greek world.

3

Add context

Place related research units within a broader historical or thematic setting.

Historical Context

Ancient Greece

The cultural and political setting of classical Greek philosophy.

Book

The Republic

Plato

Person

Plato

Philosopher

Concept

Justice

The question of what makes a society or political order just.

Place

Athens

A major city-state of the ancient Greek world.

4

Explore a broader view

Extend the same research into a larger interconnected network.

Person

Socrates

Philosopher

Person

Plato

Philosopher

Person

Aristotle

Philosopher

Book

The Republic

Plato

Concept

Democracy

A form of government in which power rests with the people.

Concept

Justice

The question of what makes a society or political order just.

Concept

Political Philosophy

The study of political concepts and their justification.

Place

Athens

A major city-state of the ancient Greek world.

Historical Context

Ancient Greece

The cultural and political setting of classical Greek philosophy.