Simposeum

Simposeum puts history's great thinkers in conversation with you. Philosophers, psychologists, theologians and rhetoricians, from Heraclitus to Hannah Arendt, answer in their own voice and reason from their own work. ASK A THINKER Put a question to Kant, Simone Weil, William James or Augustine and get an answer in the register they wrote in. Substantive answers are grounded in the thinker's writings, retrieved from their texts as you ask, and cited to the passage, so you can see where an idea comes from and check it. For the ancients whose books are lost, they reason from the fragments and reports that survive. WATCH THEM ARGUE Set two thinkers against each other on a question that divides them: Hobbes against Rousseau on human nature, Hume against Aquinas on whether reason can prove God, Marx against Keynes on capitalism. Or convene a panel of several and listen to them take each other…