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The Lessons.
Long reads, guided pathways, and short essays — written for those who'd rather think for an hour than scroll for ten.
This week's reading
Why Kant still won't let us off the hook.
Two and a half centuries after the Groundwork, the categorical imperative still has the unnerving habit of describing exactly what we wish it didn't.
Pathways — guided, in your own time.
4 paths · curatedKey Concepts.
Epistemology, ethics, metaphysics, logic, aesthetics — the working vocabulary of philosophy, made handleable.
Traditions.
Western, Eastern, Islamic, African, and Indigenous philosophy — read on their own terms, not as foils to one another.
Timeline.
A long view of how philosophical questions inherit, refuse, and refine each other — from antiquity to the contemporary moment.
Famous Arguments.
The classical proofs and their modern critics — how an argument earns the right to be remembered, and how it loses it again.