WONDER · Never lose the art of wondering

The world has never stopped asking questions.

Twelve thinkers. Nine big questions. Start anywhere.

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Question No. 1

Who am I?

Why now

Philosophy begins with wonder. A child asks why the sky is blue, and a thinker asks why there is a sky at all. You already do this. They just wrote it down.

Twelve thinkers. Nine questions. No homework.

The thinkers

Twelve minds.Twelve universes.

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TH-001 · The Questioner

Socrates

Do you actually know what you think you know?

c. 470 – 399 BCE

TH-002 · The Idealist

Plato

What if the world you see is a copy of something truer?

c. 428 – 348 BCE

TH-003 · The Observer

Aristotle

Is a good life something you do, or something you become?

384 – 322 BCE

TH-005 · The Moral Architect

Immanuel Kant

Could everyone do what you are about to do?

1724 – 1804

TH-006 · The Dialectician

G. W. F. Hegel

What if disagreement is how ideas grow up?

1770 – 1831

TH-008 · The Challenger

Friedrich Nietzsche

Are your values really yours?

1844 – 1900

Old questions

OldQuestions.New world.

Socrates

Meets Social Media

Are you expressing yourself, or performing an identity for other people?

Wonder about it

Plato

Meets Artificial Intelligence

If a system can convincingly simulate reality, how do we tell appearance from truth?

Wonder about it

Aristotle

Meets Self-Improvement Culture

Are you becoming a better person, or simply a more productive one?

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Immanuel Kant

Meets AI Ethics

Can an algorithm make a morally responsible decision?

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Meets Modern Society

Are your ambitions genuinely yours, or someone else's definition of success?

Wonder about it

G. W. F. Hegel

Meets Social Conflict

Can opposing ideas and disagreement become the foundation of social progress?

Wonder about it

Big questions

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BQ-01 · 5 minds disagree

Who am I?

Five philosophers, five ways of answering: know yourself, think yourself, bundle yourself, make yourself, choose yourself.

Pull a thread — choose a mind

Socrates

“A paraphrase of the Socratic stance: you cannot answer this by inheriting an answer. You find out by examining your own beliefs and what you actually care about.”

Paraphrase · Plato, Apology 38a; Alcibiades I

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Thought of the day

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Today: Albert Camus. The absurd is the clash between our hunger for meaning and a silent world. Camus answers with revolt and lucid living, not with escape.

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