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 ...

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 ...

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.

I t would be difficult to overestimate the influence of Socrates (470–399BC) on western philosophy.We know that he was the mentor of the young Plato, and we also know that Plato’s writings had ...

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, ...

Books ‘Rescuing Socrates’ Review: Great Books, Greatly Missed A remembrance of things past—reading major thinkers, asking serious questions, learning from devoted teachers.

Only in an epoch like ours would a publisher think it advisable to summarize a children's book about Socrates by saying the great Greek philosopher "held that wisdom comes from questioning ideas ...

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.