E-Books →Open Socrates The Case for a Philosophical Life

"[C]harming, intelligent...Open Socrates encourages us to recognize how little we know, and to start thinking." ―Jennifer Szalai, New York Times
An iconoclastic philosopher revives Socrates for our time, showing how we can answer―and, in the first place, ask―life's most important questions.
Socrates has been hiding in plain sight. We call him the father of Western philosophy, but what exactly are his philosophical views? He is famous for his humility, but readers often find him arrogant and condescending. We parrot his claim that "the unexamined life is not worth living," yet take no steps to live examined ones. We know that he was tried, convicted, and executed for "corrupting the youth," but freely assign Socratic dialogues to today's youths, to introduce them to philosophy. We've lost sight of what made him so dangerous. In
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