About Symposium
Symposium hands you one philosophical idea at a time: a short hook, the idea itself, why it matters, and a quote from the thinker who argued it. Save the ones that stick, and follow the thread from one idea to the next.
The corpus
Every idea write-up is written for Symposium. Nearly every quote is public-domain text: an English translation or original drawn from Project Gutenberg and Wikisource, or, where no public-domain English translation serves, Symposium’s own translation of a public-domain original. An essay with its own translation says so beside the source. The few essays on works still in copyright quote a sentence or two under fair use and say so on the Quotations page. Each idea credits its source, and the recommended reads under each one link to a free copy of the full work where one exists.
The plates
Each idea’s plate was generated for Symposium with an image model from a written scene, then edited into a black-ink engraving that the app prints over the school’s color. No plate reproduces an existing artwork.
The daily plate
The feed opens each day on one plate. A feed reader can follow the same pick: Daily plate by RSS.
The atlas
Every idea is a numbered plate. The atlas shows all of them on one sheet, in plate order. The quotation cabinet lists the line from the source under each plate, by author. The name of a thinker, wherever it appears, opens a page with that thinker’s plates and quotations.
Privacy
Symposium has no accounts and no sign-in. Your saved ideas and your streak stay on your device, in local storage, and never reach a server. The web version counts anonymous page views for Cloudflare Web Analytics; nothing else is tracked. The full policy is on the privacy page.
Contact
Questions, corrections, and support: luca@aperturetechnologies.net.
Symposium is an independent project. It is not affiliated with any university, publisher, or philosophical institution.
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