The Great Conversation
Thinkers
Explore the minds that shaped civilization. Three eras, countless ideas, one continuous thread of human inquiry.
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The Great Conversation
Explore the minds that shaped civilization. Three eras, countless ideas, one continuous thread of human inquiry.
800 BC – 500 AD
The founders of Western philosophy. They asked the first questions about virtue, justice, knowledge, and the good life. Their marble busts still watch over us.
Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Seneca, Cicero, Marcus Aurelius...
Enter the Agora
1300 – 1600
The rebirth of classical learning in the Italian city-states. Artists, philosophers, and statesmen who rediscovered antiquity and forged the modern world from its ashes.
Machiavelli, Petrarch, Pico della Mirandola, Dante, Leonardo, Castiglione...
Enter the Palazzo
1588 – 1672
The Dutch Republic became a haven for free thought. While Europe burned with religious wars, Amsterdam sheltered philosophers, scientists, and publishers who dared to think freely.
Spinoza, Grotius, Descartes, Huygens, Rembrandt, Vermeer...
Enter the Republic
1700 – 1950
From Enlightenment to the twentieth century. Oil portraits of the minds who built upon the Renaissance, then dared to question everything anew.
Franklin, Emerson, Carlyle, Thoreau, Wilde, Longfellow, Wordsworth...
Enter the Study
1950 – Present
Contemporary voices carrying the torch. Public intellectuals, podcasters, and independent scholars wrestling with the questions of our age through new mediums.
Peterson, Vervaeke, Taleb, Fridman, Ravikant, Yarvin, Pageau...
Enter the ForumThe only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
— Socrates