#1129 Agnes Callard - Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life
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Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Agnes Callard. She is an associate professor in philosophy at the University of Chicago, and she is the author of Open Socrates, The Case for a Philosophical Life, the book we're going to talk about today. So, Dr.
Callard, welcome to the show. It's a huge pleasure to have you one. Thank you. So let me ask you first, what does Socrates represent? What kinds of questions does he invite us to ask and try to answer?
I think he invites us to ask. the kinds of questions that we're already using the answers to in the living of our lives. So as you go through your life, you know, you make choices, small ones, big ones. Those choices are predicated on a sense of like who you are, what your goals are, what it is to be a good person. And Socrates wants to ask you about all that.
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