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. Some of the ...

During a time when many are complaining about divisiveness in politics and in society, it seems counterintuitive for a book to make the case that we need to argue more. But in “Open Socrates ...