What If You Could Ask a Philosopher a Question at 2 a.m.? 

It’s 2 a.m. You can’t sleep. A question keeps turning in your head:

“Can we be free without knowledge?”

Your teachers are asleep. Your friends too. A search engine gives you ten thousand links — but not a conversation.

Now imagine…

Imagine you could ask the question to a philosopher, face to face. Not a list of quotes: a real answer, in your language, that starts from your question.

“Great question. Let’s start with what you mean by ‘free’…”

That is how Socrates taught: not by giving lectures, but by asking questions back until his students found the answer themselves. That is the kind of learning we want to bring to every student.

Your turn

This is where you come in. We want to build the avatars with the people who will use them.

• Which great mind would you like to ask a question to?
• And what would you ask them?

Tell us in the comments on our Instagram @fbais.esprit — your answers will help us choose our first avatar.