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Explore philosophy by talking with Socrates and other thinkers

Question Socrates about virtue, Kant about duty, Sartre about freedom — each defends their thesis from their own time, without knowing the debates that will follow.

⏳ Socrates doesn't yet know how his trial will end. Sartre hasn't yet written Being and Nothingness.

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Available thinkers

Each defends their own thesis, from their own time.

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Socrates

Socratic method · Athens, 399 BC

Question the philosopher who wrote nothing, on the eve of his trial for impiety — just before he is sentenced to death.

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Immanuel Kant

Moral philosophy · Königsberg, 1785

Discuss duty and the categorical imperative with the most rigorous thinker of the German Enlightenment.

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Jean-Paul Sartre

Existentialism · Paris, 1943

Face radical freedom: “existence precedes essence”, and no one can choose in your place.

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René Descartes

Rationalism · Amsterdam, 1637

Follow the method of doubt that leads to the cogito: “I think, therefore I am”.

The big questions to explore

Ask the questions an essay never leaves you time to explore.

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Freedom

Are we really free, or determined by causes beyond our grasp? Sartre and Spinoza clash.

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Consciousness and the unconscious

Are we masters of ourselves? Descartes said yes, Freud had his doubts.

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Duty and morality

Must we obey the moral law even when it costs us? Kant, Aristotle and Mill answer differently.

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Truth and doubt

Can we be certain of anything? Follow Descartes's method of doubt all the way to the cogito.

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The state and power

Do we need a state to live together, or is it a tool of domination? Hobbes versus Rousseau.

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Justice

What is a just society? Rawls's veil of ignorance against Plato's harmony.

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