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Philosophy: an introduction.
The way to learn something properly. On the schedule you actually have. About what you actually want to understand.
A 3-day path. Twenty-two minutes a day.
What philosophy is actually for.
Most adults think philosophy is something specialists do. It is not. Philosophy is the practice of thinking carefully about questions that do not have easy answers — which is most of the important questions in life. This path is the introduction. Three longer sessions instead of seven short ones, because each of the three questions deserves time to land. By the end you will have a working sense of why philosophy matters, even if you never pick up a philosophy book again.
Philosophy is for ordinary people.
Day 1 starts in 399 BCE with Socrates on trial for his life, and the strange story he tells the jury about the oracle at Delphi. Two and a half millennia later, his founding move — knowing what you do not know — is still the foundation. Day 1 names what philosophy actually is, and why the cultural perception of it as a specialist activity is the obstacle.
Day 1 of any path is free in the app.
Each day, one question. In sequence.
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