Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life

Callard, Agnes

ISBN 10: 1631498460 / ISBN 13: 9781631498466

Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company, 2025

Hardcover Book. Includes dustjacket. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 4CJH0200C8JX

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Open SocratesCallard draws our attention to Socrates’ startling discovery that we don’t know how to ask ourselves the most important questions—about how we should live, and how we might change. Before a person even has a chance to reflect, their bodily desires or the forces of social conformity have already answered on their behalf. To ask the most important questions, we need help. Callard argues that the true ambition of the famous “Socratic method” is to reveal what one human being can be to another. You can use another person in many ways—for survival, for pleasure, for comfort—but you are engaging them to the fullest when you call on them to help answer your questions and challenge your answers.Callard shows that Socrates’ method allows us to make progress in thinking about how to manage romantic love, how to confront one’s own death, and how to approach politics. In the process, she gives us nothing less than a new ethics to live by.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Agnes Callard is an American philosopher and an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago. She has written for the New York Times, The New Yorker, Atlantic, Harper's, Point, and others. She lives in Chicago.

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Titel: Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical ...
Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
Einband: Hardcover
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