README.md

metadata

license: mit
task_categories:
  - text-generation
language:
  - en
tags:
  - philosophy
  - classical-texts
  - character-level
  - gpt-training
size_categories:
  - 10K<n<100K
dataset_info:
  features:
    - name: text
      dtype: string
  splits:
    - name: train
      num_bytes: 356468
      num_examples: 2361
    - name: validation
      num_bytes: 39715
      num_examples: 263
  download_size: 191656
  dataset_size: 396183
configs:
  - config_name: default
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/train-*
      - split: validation
        path: data/validation-*

Philosophy Corpus

54 classical philosophy texts for training character-level language models.

Contents

Category	Works	Count
Plato	Republic, Apology, Symposium, Phaedo, Crito, Meno, Phaedrus, Timaeus, Laws, Gorgias, Protagoras, Theaetetus	12
Aristotle	Categories, Ethics, Rhetoric, Physics, Metaphysics, Poetics, Politics, On the Soul, On the Heavens, Prior/Posterior Analytics, Topics, On Generation & Corruption	12
Stoics	Marcus Aurelius Meditations, Epictetus Discourses & Enchiridion, Seneca Moral Essays	4
Roman	Lucretius On the Nature of Things, Cicero (On Duties, Nature of Gods, On Friendship)	4
Early Modern	Descartes (Method, Meditations), Kant Critique of Pure Reason, Spinoza Ethics, Hobbes Leviathan, Locke Second Treatise, Bacon Essays	6
Enlightenment/19th c.	Hume, Rousseau, Nietzsche (x2), Mill (x2), Machiavelli, Emerson, Thoreau, Montaigne, Schopenhauer	10
Other	Boethius Consolation, Diogenes/Epicurus, Latin Grammar	6

Files

• data/*.txt - Individual cleaned text files (54 files)
• data/training_data.txt - Combined paragraphs, lowercased, a-z + space + period only (85K paragraphs, ~25 MB)
• data/full_corpus.txt - Full concatenated corpus with original casing (~26 MB)

Sources

• Project Gutenberg (public domain)
• MIT Internet Classics Archive (public domain translations)

Usage

Used as training data for JuliaGPT and JuliaFluxGPT character-level transformer models.