Philosophy for Everyday Life
Turn philosophy into a practical toolkit for everyday decisions. Learn to uncover hidden assumptions, evaluate arguments with clarity, and navigate complex moral choices with confidence.
Like Duolingo, but for Philosophy for Everyday Life. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
A short one: 11 levels across 2 sections, about 22 minutes end to end, roughly 4 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Sharpening Your Thinking and Choosing Actions and Weighing Truth. It starts from scratch.
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Key ideas in Philosophy for Everyday Life
- Philosophical arguments rely on hidden premises that aren't spoken out loud
- To evaluate a claim, you have to spot the unspoken rule connecting the fact to the conclusion
- This specific argument assumes human drivers make zero or fewer fatal mistakes than autonomous cars
- Socrates investigated beliefs by asking people to define their key terms clearly
- Targeting a definition reveals contradictions without needing to argue against the person's final conclusion
- A counter-argument attacks the conclusion, whereas Socratic inquiry asks 'What do you mean by justice?'
- A gut feeling tells you what you prefer, but philosophy requires naming the general rule behind that feeling
- An intuition only becomes an argument once you extract a consistent principle that can be tested in other cases
- Principles state broad moral rules that explain why a specific visceral reaction occurred
- Two people can follow flawless logic and still disagree if they start from different fundamental values
- In philosophy, valid reasoning guarantees a true conclusion only if the initial premises are accepted
- Most persistent ethical disputes trace back to which starting values each side prioritizes
- A deductive argument can follow logically correct steps while leading to a false conclusion
- An argument is only reliable if both the structural reasoning and the starting factual premises are true
- Rhetoric prioritizes feeling, rhythm, and persuasion over structural proof
- Philosophical analysis ignores charismatic delivery to test whether claims actually prove the conclusion
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Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives Philosophy for Everyday Life the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
When someone gives you a fact and jumps straight to a decision, what must you find to test their reasoning?
Get it right to open this lesson and 10 more in the app.
Where Philosophy for Everyday Life takes you
- 1
Sharpening Your Thinking
- Questioning Unexamined Assumptions
- Stress-Testing an Argument
- 2
Choosing Actions and Weighing Truth
- Navigating Moral Dilemmas
- Deciding What You Truly Know
2 sections · 4 units · 11 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
You pick the voice
Philosophy for Everyday Life is taught in the The Professor style: clear, structured, thorough. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.
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