THE ROUNDTABLE
Select Your Counselors
Marcus Aurelius
Emperor of Rome
Socrates
The Gadfly
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Iconoclast
Niccolò Machiavelli
The Strategist
Jalal al-Din Rumi
The Mystic
Hypatia of Alexandria
The Mathematician
Select Your Counselors
Emperor of Rome
The Gadfly
The Iconoclast
The Strategist
The Mystic
The Mathematician
The convening
The Roundtable is where you compose your own council. Choose between two and six philosophers — a Stoic emperor beside a Sufi mystic, a realist beside a questioner — and convene them around your question.
Who you seat changes what you hear. A council of Marcus Aurelius and Rumi answers with duty and love; add Machiavelli and the same question comes back with teeth.
01
Choose your counselors
Select two to six philosophers. Each brings a distinct framework, and the frictions between them are deliberate.
02
Bring the question
Put your dilemma to the table. There is no script — the council responds to what you actually asked.
03
Counsel in dialogue
Each philosopher speaks in their own voice, answers the others, and presses you where you are vague.
From a session
“Marcus asks what duty requires. Rumi asks what love requires. You keep answering a third question nobody asked — what will people think.”
— Roundtable session, three counselors seated