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What are you reading? March 14, 2025 [1]

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Date: 2025-03-14

Open Socrates: The Case For a Philosophical Life by Agnes Callard- Following the terminology and arguments is not so bad. When one thinks about applying it sounds...easy...now try and do it!

An untimely question is a question that comes at the wrong time— namely after it’s answered.

Your answers to untimely questions stem from savage commands. Suppose you want to replace them with better answers. What should you do? Simple: keep an open mind and inquire. moving toward what’s true and away from what’s false. Can that really be all there is to it? Yes. That is the Socratic method.

How to Think Like Socrates: Ancient Philosophy as a Way of Life in the Modern World by Donald J. Robertson

Genet: A Biography by Edmund White

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