Key ideas represent summaries of important thoughts of philosophers often not easily captured in direct quotes. Key idea details in addition to including the key idea also includes a list of key ideas that are in agreement with the idea and a list that are in disagreement.

KeyIdea is a top-level object returned by the Philosophers API with dedicated endpoints for accessing them and their details.

Sample Key Idea:

{
    "internalID": "540",
    "philosopherID": "44C03561-50DB-4AC2-B567-97636CFC4E59",
    "order": "7",
    "id": "AA78105F-C1BD-4813-A8CC-34609D139800",
    "categoryAbbrevs": [
        "et",
        "on"
    ],
    "reference": "The Story of Philosophy, Bryan Magee, DK Pub., 1998",
    "text": "Existence precedes essence; through our choices, not our nature, we create ourselves."
}

Key idea details include agreeing and disagreeing ideas. Associated ideas return key idea info as well as philosopher info the philosopher that hold the associated idea.

Sample Key Idea With Philosopher:

{
    "reference": "The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, iep.utm.edu/camus/, Author: David Simpson",
    "philosopher": { ... },
    "order": "8",
    "categoryAbbrevs": [
        "et",
        "on"
    ],
    "internalID": "556",
    "id": "AA359620-F2B8-4996-8393-E02139EA2374",
    "text": "When analyzing rebellion, one begins to suspect that there is a human nature contrary to what many presently believe."
}

Where philosopher is the object described on the home page.

Sample Category Details:

{
    "name": "Ethics",
    "id": "1F68D9EC-93B5-45FE-A06B-27F19BC1FFFD",
    "speLink": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-virtue/",
    "associatedPhilosophers": [ ... ],
    "iepLink": "https://www.iep.utm.edu/ethics/",
    "abbreviation": "et",
    "images": {
        "banner800x600": "/Images/Ethics@2x.png",
        "banner1200x900": "/Images/Ethics@3x.png",
        "banner400x300": "/Images/Ethics.png"
    },
    "wikiTitle": "Ethics",
    "description": "Ethics attempts to systematize, define, and recommend right and wrong conduct."
}