In 399 BC, Socrates stood before a jury of 500 Athenian citizens, accused of undermining the state religion and introducing ...

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Her superpowers as a philosopher sprung out of the frustration at getting her thoughts and herself across to people who ...

In “Open Socrates,” Agnes Callard argues for a way of being that sounds a lot like her own.

Callard is a University of Chicago moral philosopher with a madcap streak, and a perpetually controversial figure for making offbeat public pronouncements and unconventional romantic choices, and ...

During family gatherings, the adults often ask intense philosophical "why" questions, which destroys our perception of reality as kids.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Plato's accounts of the last days of Socrates in which he kept doing philosophy right up to the point of his execution by hemlock. Show more Melvyn Bragg and guests ...

This hour, philosopher Agnes Callard joins us to talk about her new book, Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life. Subscribe to The Noseletter, an email compendium of merriment, secrets, and ...

When Socrates also argued that “the unexamined life is not worth living,” he had in mind that there is objective truth (morally, politically and what we would now call scientifically), and ...

Unexamined commitments carry hidden dangers. The irrational EV obsession, pursued in the face of persuasive evidence, can only end in the loss of political and investor capital. Taxpayers will notice ...

But in “Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life,” Agnes Callard illustrates how philosophy isn’t just a spectator sport. It requires engaging with one another and arguing with each ...