The Seminar

Pick any two thinkers. Pick a question they both argued. See what they actually said.

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Ten curated reading paths — each pairs two thinkers on one question, with intros that frame the tension and passages drawn straight from the corpus.

What Is Justice? Plato vs Aristotle Is the State Legitimate? Hobbes vs Locke Does God Exist? Aquinas vs Hume Can We Know Anything? Descartes vs Hume What Makes a Good Life? Aristotle vs Mill Can Humans Be Free? Augustine vs Kant What Is Love? Plato vs Augustine What Is Beauty? Plato vs Kant What Is History? Thucydides vs Hegel The Debate on Democracy Plato (critic) vs Mill (defender)