philosophy-mcp

An MCP server for a multilingual philosophy corpus — glossary, syntheses, thinker profiles, and articles in Portuguese, English, and Spanish.

648 entries: ~270 glossary terms, 11 period syntheses, ~107 thinker profiles, and articles from Filosofia em Resumo.

Requirements

• Python >= 3.10

Quick Start

Install from PyPI

pip install philosophy-mcp

Install with uv

uv pip install philosophy-mcp

Run directly with uvx (no install needed)

uvx philosophy-mcp

Use with Claude Desktop

Add to your claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "filosofia": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["philosophy-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Use with VS Code

Add to .vscode/mcp.json:

{
  "servers": {
    "filosofia": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["philosophy-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

That's it. The server connects to the public API automatically — no local files needed.

What can it do?

Ask your AI assistant anything about philosophy. The MCP tools give it access to a curated corpus:

• "O que é eudaimonia?" → searches the glossary

• "Tell me about Kant" → fetches the thinker profile

• "¿Cuáles son las síntesis disponibles?" → lists period syntheses

• "Search 'logos' across everything" → full-text search

Examples

Portuguese (default — lang="pt"):

"O que significa imperativo categórico?" "Me fale sobre Sócrates" "Quais são os períodos da filosofia?"

English (lang="en"):

"What is eudaimonia?" "Tell me about Aristotle's philosophy" "List all thinker profiles in English" "Search for 'virtue' in the glossary"

Spanish (lang="es"):

"¿Qué es el logos?" "Busca pensadores relacionados con el estoicismo" "Dame la síntesis del período medieval"

The assistant picks the language automatically based on your question, or you can ask explicitly: "Search 'categorical imperative' in the English glossary".

Available Tools

lang: pt (default), en, es

Languages

All content is available in three languages:

Data Source

The server connects to the public API at filosofiaemresumo.com.br/api automatically.

Content Coverage

Periods (Syntheses)

1. Pre-Socratics & Sophists (~600–400 BC)

2. Socrates, Plato & Aristotle

3. Hellenistic Philosophy

4. Medieval Philosophy

5. Humanism & Renaissance

6. Scientific Revolution

7. Rationalism & Empiricism

8. Contractualism, Enlightenment & Kant

9. German Idealism

10. 19th Century Philosophy

11. 20th Century Philosophy

Thinkers (~107 profiles)

From Thales of Miletus to Judith Butler — including Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, Foucault, and many more.

Glossary (~90 terms per language)

Key philosophical concepts: arché, eudaimonia, logos, phronesis, noumeno, Aufhebung, categorical imperative, will to power, and more.

License

MIT