Find Your Next Book Thrillers N.Y.C. Literary Guide Nonfiction Summer Preview Advertisement Supported by Nonfiction In “Open Socrates,” the scholar Agnes Callard argues that the ancient Greek ...

Through Robertson is able to underscore how timeless Socrates’ advice remains, his book could stand to be more accessible for readers hoping to find that advice. 0 Article Comments.

The book urges readers to not equate thinking with retreating from conversation and avoiding disputes. Thinking, Callard writes, requires interacting with others the same way Socrates did — even ...

Socrates did not think books were useless. In fact, he was an avid reader who enjoyed quoting other writers. He believed, though, that like the cryptic oracles of Apollo, ...

The book fleshes out the character and thought of Socrates to mount a full-throated defense of his claim that “the unexamined life is not worth living.” A note to our readers ...

But the book is inconsistent and difficult to follow sometimes, as it bounces from an easy distillation of Socrates’ philosophy to an all-too-detailed history of ancient Greece.

The book urges readers to not equate thinking with retreating from conversation and avoiding disputes. Thinking, Callard writes, requires interacting with others the same way Socrates did — even ...

But the book is inconsistent and difficult to follow sometimes, as it bounces from an easy distillation of Socrates’ philosophy to an all-too-detailed history of ancient Greece.

The book urges readers to not equate thinking with retreating from conversation and avoiding disputes. Thinking, Callard writes, requires interacting with others the same way Socrates did — even ...

The book offers a solid biography of Socrates and his times, but it could use some work weaving in the modern-day application of his lessons.