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What are you reading? March 21, 2025 [1]
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Date: 2025-03-21
I am finished reading:
Open Socrates: The Case For a Philosophical Life by Agnes Callard - This is worthy of a review apart from the other Socrates book that I’m reading.
At times, Open Socrates is dense for a book of public philosophy but Callard’s ultimate suggestion (or “advice”— loathe as Dr. Callard can be about giving advice) is that people need to talk with one another...and with ourselves.
I love some of the anecdotes in here, especially the one about philosopher A.J. Ayer and Mike Tyson. But what I really liked is that Callard may be a steward into a reconsideration of “Socratic irony.”
I greatly enjoyed this book and I love her YouTube talks...best part is she’s right here in Chicago...so who knows what else I might do…
(Granted, I still think that you can’t write a book about Socrates, be an advocate for Socrates, and then say you don’t want to give advice… it’s kinda what Socrates does)
Over the decades, a lot has changed about how I read Plato, but the single biggest change is that I have time to see less and less ironic distance between Socrates and his interlocutors. Increasingly, Socrates seems to me to be putting all his cards on the table, and this strikes me as an act of great friendliness, openness, and humanity. Where I once saw Socratic irony, I now see Socratic love.
Full review to come, hopefully.
I am reading:
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