Open Socrates: The case for a philosophical life by Agnes Callard
Completed: March 15, 2025
Recommendation: Highly Recommended
Recommended By: Nobody
Review:
Talking about raising children, "Every time I approach my kids and am in a corrective mood to nudge them towards what I see as a superior way of living, I feel as though I've walked on the the stage of a play where the characters were given their direction at some previous time by some previous person. Sometimes it amazes me--how could it be that I missed my chance to give my instructions given that I've been around since the minute that they were born?"
This book completely changes the way I have looked at Socrates. I bought a copy and I'm reading it again and marking passages.