Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life by Agnes Callard games street-level investigative reporting

street-level investigative reporting

Beginning with an exploration of the importance of photosynthesis to living soil

to home-made pizza eaten with his children before bedtime

the beautiful and the defiant - for all fans of the songs of Nick Cave

but then to happiness in friendship

Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life by Agnes Callard games street-level investigative reporting'A gem of a book, serious and clever yet funny and playful' Financial Times 'Professor of philosophy and a public intellectual for the internet age, Callard shows how Socrates can inform the way we live our lives from romance to politics' Guardian Socrates has been hiding in plain sight. We call him the father of Western philosophy, but what exactly are his philosophical views? He is famous for his humility, but readers often find him arrogant and