Agora Society

03/07/2025

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: AGORA ISSUE V — UNCOVER

Uncover is about the philosophy that exists in hidden places in our lives. Where, and how, do we engage in this method of inquiry without being aware of it?

We invite you to step behind the curtain and share what you uncover. We are looking for short stories, essays, poetry, and photography which push our conversations below the surface.

🗓️ Submissions due: August 8th!
📥 Submit through Google Form in IG bio.

30/05/2025

AGORA COMMITTEE APPLICATIONS

With great excitement, we are announcing the opening of new roles within the Agora committee as we move forward into a new academic year. There are currently three available roles which are described in detail in the application form. We look forward to receiving your applications.

– Agora

25/02/2025

Thank You for an Incredible Discussion!

Last night’s conversation on The Weight of Meaninglessness was our most passionate and engaged yet—huge thanks to everyone who joined in!

While most affirmed the power of subjective human meaning, our debate revealed a fundamental and unresolvable divide: Is truth legitimate because it aligns with the structure of universe, or because it holds significance for human life? Does meaning require an external foundation, or is it legitimised through personal and collective experience?

These tensions remain unresolved, but that’s what makes the discussion worth having. See you at the next agora—where the questions never stop.

Engage, reflect, and challenge what you know.
—Agora.

04/02/2025

Thank you to everyone who joined last night’s discussion!

We reflected on the purpose of Agora—why we gather, why these conversations matter. Agora exists to bring life-defining questions into the public sphere, freeing them from the margins of private thought. It’s a space to challenge, to question, and to think for oneself—to make life one’s own rather than inherit it uncritically.

Your voices shape this project. Let’s keep pushing the conversation forward. See you next time!

P.S. Thank you for bringing great ideas throughout the night

15/01/2025

📮 Applications are OPEN for Design, Marketing, and Editorial positions at Agora Magazine! 🗣️ Join us in creating a space for honest, philosophical conversation and self-discovery. 📕 Apply by 12th February and be part of the change! Link in here and in bio📌 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScNRhzjMCWqtV-DaPBCIyTyUKXY_5yBhIzE_P7JmY1Z0NBCAA/viewform?usp=dialog

18/09/2024

A huge thank you to everyone who came to our first Agora social this past Monday! It was great to see so many new faces and those we missed from last year!

If you couldn’t make it, don’t worry - join us next Monday at 6pm in Aikman’s Cellar for more philosophy and pints! 🫶🏼

04/08/2024

Agora's Issue 3 is still open for submissions, offering a £50 prize to the best work!

Submissions should be sent to [email protected]

Check out our website at https://www.agorastandrews.org/

In Agora we hope to inspire bold and original voices by offering ourselves as a platform for absolute authenticity. We dare you to question and to understand life not as an inheritor of knowledge, rationale, and belief, but as a producer. Face the void that comes with scepticism and you will be rewarded with a deliberate and insightful selfhood. Agora's Issue 3 offers the perfect chance to do just so.

Ask yourself the questions above, and unearth the roots of your answers, see whether they are inherited assumptions; whether the understanding that founded them is vague and unarticulated. Part of the journey of self-becoming is to break free from these assumptions and strive to find our own answers, bound only by your creativity and experience, informed by rigorous dialogue and criticality.

For Agora's Issue 3, feel free to submit a photo or an essay, a poem or a short story, a piece of sheet music or a painting. The world is yours to devour, no matter how naïve one may be. In Agora, we believe that we cannot wait until we are certified geniuses before we can confidently express ourselves. We must all start from somewhere, so start now! Start with Agora Issue 3

Sincerely,
—Agora Committee

11/06/2024

03/05/2024

This Monday the 6th of May at 6pm, the Agora is hosting a discussion on Envisioning Socialism: Ideals & Realities!

From Scotland’s asphyxiating minimum wage, to a consumerist and profit-incentivised economy giving way to mass alienation, socialism stands as a powerful champion of the people. And yet, what exactly would the socialist world look like? How could it help us? How would it avoid the typical downfalls of past ‘socialist societies?’ What does it takes to achieve socialist ideals?

Please join us for a friendly discussion and a pint to vocalise any thoughts, concerns, and insights on this significant matter, or simply to listen if you wish. The more the merrier!

Excited to see you all,
—Agora

03/05/2024

This Monday the 6th of May at 6pm, the Agora is hosting a discussion on Envisioning Socialism: Ideals & Realities!

From Scotland's asphyxiating minimum wage, to a consumerist and profit-incentivised economy giving way to mass alienation, socialism stands as a powerful champion of the people. And yet, what exactly would the socialist world look like? How could it help us? How would it avoid the typical downfalls of past 'socialist societies?' What does it takes to achieve socialist ideals?

Please join us for a friendly discussion and a pint to vocalise any thoughts, concerns, and insights on this significant matter, or simply to listen if you wish. The more the merrier!

Excited to see you all,
—Agora

01/05/2024

Thank you to everyone who came to last Monday’s meeting, it was exciting to hear so many peoples’ perspectives on Nihilism and the Confrontation of Christianity!
From discussing the validity of Nihilism to begin with, to whether a human is legitimate in an “inhuman”universe, to metaethical questions arising from Christian morality, there was a wealth of discussions that could have gone on for many more hours.

Stay tuned for our next discussion!!!

06/04/2024

THIS MONDAY (08.04.2024)
⭐️ Join us for some philosophical brews at our next discussion on THE EVOLUTION OF PHILOSOPHY FROM ITS HUMAN ORIGINS INTO TODAY’S ST ANDRIAN ANALYTIC TRADITION!
⭐️How did philosophy come about in the first place? What was its original purpose and how does it serve us today here in Scotland?
⭐️ Feel free to either prepare yourself ahead of time or simply show up!

We look forward to seeing you there!