Philosophilo

Philosophilo is a quiet place to study philosophy the old way: one idea a day, in the philosopher's own words, with a page to think it through. Choose a mentor. Aristotle, Socrates, Confucius, Mengzi, Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Kant, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Lao Tzu, Camus or Musashi. Each has a course of about thirty sessions, arranged in chapters, that walks through what they actually argued. Every day brings one passage. It is quoted word for word from a named translation, never paraphrased and never invented. Under it sits a short reading that explains what the passage says, what it means, and why it still bites, and one question about your own day. Write your answer in the journal, or ask the mentor directly. Ask about this. Every passage and every reading opens a dialogue with the mentor, who answers in their own voice from their own ideas. Push back, ask for an example, ask what…