Western Philosophy
Where the argument started.
Two and a half thousand years of people in robes and cardigans asking the same few questions: what is real, what is good, and how would we ever know. We take one idea at a time, strip out the jargon, and check whether it still holds up on an ordinary Tuesday.
Posts look like this
- Socrates would have been unbearable in the family group chat
- Marcus Aurelius wrote a page every morning. You opened Instagram. Let's talk.
- The trolley problem, except it's a local train at nine in the morning
- Camus says the struggle is enough. Your landlord has notes.
- Ancient Greece
- Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, and the habit of asking one question too many.
- Stoicism
- What is up to you, what isn't, and why that single distinction is the whole practice.
- Existentialism and absurdism
- Sartre, de Beauvoir and Camus on freedom, dread, and finding it funny anyway.
- Ethics
- Duties, consequences and virtue. Mostly: how to be decent when it costs you something.
- Epistemology
- How we know what we know, and how loudly we're entitled to say it.
- Political philosophy
- Who gets to decide, and what they owe everybody else.
- Mind and metaphysics
- Consciousness, free will, and what survives once you stop assuming.