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

Athens was deeply polarized over big-picture questions, and Socrates was never hesitant to question both sides’ assumptions – ...

OPEN SOCRATES: The Case for a Philosophical Life, by Agnes Callard Maybe this ... Callard was so enthralled by Socratic philosophy as a college student that she wanted to “be Socrates” and ...

Once you have accepted that inquiry demands the presence of an interlocutor, you may wonder what exactly to inquire about.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

In “How to Think Like Socrates: Ancient Philosophy as a Way of Life in the Modern World,” Donald J. Robertson describes Socrates' Athens in terms that seem all too familiar: a society ...

During a time when many are complaining about divisiveness in politics and in society, it seems counterintuitive for a book to make the case that we need to argue more. But in “Open Socrates ...

During a time when many are complaining about divisiveness in politics and in society, it seems counterintuitive for a book to make the case that we need to argue more. But in “Open Socrates ...