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Not answers about philosophy — philosophy practised.

Every exchange is grounded in the thinkers' own works: their arguments, their words, their quarrels. You enter the conversation the tradition has been having with itself for two and a half thousand years, and you take part in it.

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Grounded in the works

Not vibes — a library, read closely.

Philosophers
42
Works ingested
318
Years of thought
~2,500
Ingested works by year
Ingested works by year
YearWorkAuthor
380 BCERepublicPlato
340 BCENicomachean EthicsAristotle
300 BCEDao De JingLaozi
50 BCEDe Rerum NaturaLucretius
65Letters to LuciliusSeneca
180MeditationsMarcus Aurelius
397ConfessionsAugustine
524Consolation of PhilosophyBoethius
1274Summa TheologiaeThomas Aquinas
1580EssaysMontaigne
1641MeditationsDescartes
1677EthicsSpinoza
1689Two Treatises of GovernmentLocke
1739A Treatise of Human NatureHume
1781Critique of Pure ReasonKant
1807Phenomenology of SpiritHegel
1818The World as WillSchopenhauer
1843Either/OrKierkegaard
1859On LibertyMill
1886Beyond Good and EvilNietzsche
1927Being and TimeHeidegger
1943Being and NothingnessSartre
1951The Origins of TotalitarianismArendt
1971A Theory of JusticeRawls

Each mark is an ingested work, set at its year. Antiquity to the present — density shows where the library runs deepest.

What would you ask?

A few of the questions people bring. Yours is somewhere here, or near it.

  • If a lie would spare someone real harm, is it still wrong to tell it?

    — to Kant

  • When the Republic calls justice "minding one's own business," is that a definition or a sleight of hand?

    — to Plato

  • I can take the secure path or the one I actually want. How do I decide without lying to myself about the reasons?

    — to Kierkegaard

  • Set Nietzsche against the Stoics: is it stronger to master your reaction, or to want exactly what happens?

    — Nietzsche vs. the Stoics

  • Is there a difference between being free and merely not noticing what decides for me?

    — to Spinoza

  • When ordinary people do terrible things on orders, where exactly does the responsibility sit?

    — to Hannah Arendt

  • How much of what I'm sure I know could I actually defend if I had to?

    — to Socrates

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