Philosophy: The Art of Living Well
Like Duolingo, but for Philosophy: The Art of Living Well. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.
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Key ideas in Philosophy: The Art of Living Well
- Right vs. wrong choices have a clear social or moral 'winner' that resolves the tension
- Every difficult choice is actually a conflict between two internal priorities
- Choosing between two 'goods' requires sacrificing one value to honor another
- Naming the value helps explain why the loss of the other option feels painful
- The pain of a hard choice comes from the 'opportunity cost' of the good path not taken
- Identifying the underlying values that create the 'weight' in a difficult decision
- Even a 'perfect' decision involves a meaningful loss of a different positive outcome
- Utility counts the well-being of everyone affected by a choice.
- A small benefit for many can outweigh a large benefit for one person.
- Focusing only on the end result can lead to outcomes that feel unfair.
- Intense suffering is weighted heavily against minor pleasures in well-being math.
- Applying the concept of total utility to a group decision
- Recognizing the ethical tradeoff between total happiness and individual suffering
- Total well-being is a sum of individual experiences.
- The intensity of an experience changes its weight in the final calculation.
- Distinguishing between different ways of measuring a 'good' outcome
You've tried the other tabs
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: The Art of Living Well 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.
Picture yourself deciding between a steady, boring job and a risky, exciting startup. What is actually happening beneath the surface of this difficult choice?
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Where Philosophy: The Art of Living Well takes you
Move beyond basic definitions and start applying philosophical tools to your daily choices. Explore how ancient wisdom and modern logic help you navigate ethics, identity, and the search for meaning.
- 1
Decide Like a Philosopher
- The Weight of Choice: Beyond Right and Wrong
- Measuring Happiness: The Math of Good Outcomes
- Character Over Rules: Living Your Values
- The Duty Trap: When Principles Conflict
- 2
Question Your Reality
- The Filter of the Mind: How We Perceive the World
- Knowing vs. Believing: The Limits of Certainty
- The Ship of Theseus: What Makes You 'You'?
- Language Games: How Words Shape Our Truths
- Artificial Minds: Can a Machine Truly Think?
- The Social Contract: Why We Agree to Follow Rules
- 3
Find Meaning in the Chaos
- Embracing the Absurd: Finding Joy in a Random Universe
- The Freedom of Responsibility: Creating Your Own Purpose
- Stoic Resilience: Controlling What You Can
3 sections · 13 units · 26 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
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