Philosophy course: How should you live? Greece, India and China gave very different answers.
Work it out in conversation with your own AI tutor in the Epivo app.
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- Remembers where you left off and what you've told your tutor about yourself
- Certificate included anyone can check it online
Why Epivo
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Start learning freeHow it works
- Your tutor tells the story of an idea, a piece at a time, then hands you one small puzzle about it.
- You think it through, out loud or by typing. You don't need to know the answer: your tutor helps you along and tells you when you're close.
- Step by step, it adds up. Your tutor remembers your past sessions, and what you've shared about your own life, and picks up where you left off.
What you can explore
- Western philosophy, from ancient Greece to the twentieth century: what we can really know, and how to live well
- Practical Stoicism: what is in your control, and how to stay steady when things go wrong
- Philosophy from India, China, Japan and Korea: the Buddha on suffering, Confucius on how to be good
- Islamic and Jewish philosophy: how thinkers in Baghdad, Spain and Egypt weighed faith and reason
- African philosophy, from ancient Egypt's idea of truth and balance to ubuntu, the southern African idea that a person becomes a person through others
You don't need to know anything first. Nine courses to choose from: Western, Stoicism, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Islamic, Jewish, African.
Hear a sample of how a lesson starts
Let's go back about two and a half thousand years, to ancient Greece. People there started asking what the world is made of, and they stopped settling for the old stories. So here's my first question. Why do you think that happened there, and then? Tell me your guess, and we'll see where it leads.
What it costs
Free
- 30 minutes a day with your tutor
- No card needed.
- Your first hour uses the Premium voice (once, not every day). After that your tutor speaks with the free voice, which runs on your phone. The lessons, the questions and your progress stay exactly the same.
- Certificates included.
- Want more time? Paid plans add more tutoring time and more Premium voice time. See plans and prices →
Finish with a certificate
Finish all the courses in one tradition and earn a certificate anyone can check online. See a sample →
Questions
Is it really free?
Yes. Thirty minutes a day with your tutor, and no card. Paid plans add more time if you ever want it.
Is my tutor a real person?
No. Your tutor is an AI that talks with you, follows a planned course and remembers your past sessions.
How do I know the lessons are accurate?
Before written lesson material reaches you, an AI checks its key facts against independent published sources, and a second AI re-checks anything flagged. Your tutor is instructed to teach from that material and to tell you when unsure: an instruction, not a guarantee. And you can check for yourself: tap Sources in the lesson menu and pick a session to see what it drew on, including links to the original sources.
How is this different from asking ChatGPT?
ChatGPT answers what you ask. Your tutor leads the way: a planned route through each tradition, one question at a time, picking up where you left off.
Do I need any background in philosophy?
No. Your tutor starts from what you already think and builds from there. The Western course starts in ancient Greece, and one of its first questions is a simple one: why did philosophy begin there at all?
Which traditions can I study?
Nine courses: eight traditions (Western, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Islamic, Jewish and African philosophy), each running from its beginnings to modern thinkers, plus a practical course on Stoicism.
Is it on iPhone?
Not yet. Epivo runs on Android today. Open this page on an iPhone and you can leave your email; we'll tell you when the iPhone app is ready.
Bring a big question. Work it out together.
Start in ancient Greece, or tell your tutor which tradition you'd like.
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Photo credits (via Wikimedia Commons). Equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius, Rome: Nicholas Hartmann, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped. The Sariputta Stupa at Nalanda, India: Sumitsurai, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.
