Philosophy by Rick

Philosophy by Rick brings you one great thinker every morning. At 8:00 a new lesson arrives: who they were, where they came from, one idea worth keeping and a small challenge to try that day. It takes about five minutes. When you’ve read it, say so — and the next lesson is written for tomorrow. Fall behind and nothing piles up: the app simply waits for you. ONE LESSON A DAY • About 150 thinkers, from Marcus Aurelius and Confucius to Hannah Arendt • Ancient Greece and Rome, China, India, the Islamic world, Africa, medieval and modern Europe, and the twentieth century • Each lesson has a quote with its source, an explanation in plain language, a challenge for the day and a line to remember the thinker by • Choose your arrival time, how practical or big-picture the lessons are, and whether they take three or five minutes SEE HOW THEY CONNECT • A timeline of everyone you’ve met, with world events to hang them on and who taught whom • An atlas showing where each thinker was born and where they ended up • Each philosopher’s life journey, key ideas, books and portraits from Wikimedia Commons ASK ANYTHING Ask questions about any thinker and get an answer written on your iPhone by Apple Intelligence, grounded in the Wikipedia article and always with its sources. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no ads, no tracking. Your lessons and reading history stay on your iPhone. Apple Intelligence runs on the device; nothing you ask leaves it. ON YOUR LOCK SCREEN Add a widget that shows today’s lesson, and confirm a lesson from the morning notification or with Siri: “I read Philosophy”. Every lesson is pre-written and checked. Quotes come from a curated library with the work they appear in; where a saying is a paraphrase, the app says so.