📚 Sophist API

The Sophist database (101 philosophers / 124 concepts / 22 schools / 100 works) is available as a free, static JSON API. No authentication, no rate limits, CORS enabled. Field names are in English; content values (names, summaries) are primarily in Japanese, with name_en provided for all entities.

Endpoints

GET

/api/philosophers.json

All 101 philosophers

GET

/api/philosophers/{slug}.json

Single philosopher (e.g. /api/philosophers/kant.json)

GET

/api/concepts.json ・ /api/schools.json ・ /api/works.json

Concepts, schools, works (list + per-slug files)

GET

/articles.json

Metadata for all 222 articles

Example

const res = await fetch("https://sophist.jp/api/philosophers/kant.json"); const kant = await res.json(); console.log(kant.name_en, kant.era, kant.concepts);

License

Data is provided under CC BY 4.0 — please credit "Sophist.jp". Static files, so no rate limits; please be reasonable with bulk fetches. The schema may be extended (backward-compatible) without notice.

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