In “Open Socrates,” Agnes Callard argues for a way of being that sounds a lot like her own.

In the complex and often violent political arena of ancient Greece, ideals of civic engagement and self-determination mingled ...

Callard is a University of Chicago moral philosopher with a madcap streak, and a perpetually controversial figure for making offbeat public pronouncements and unconventional romantic choices, and ...

The Case for a Philosophical Life" by Agnes Callard. (W.W. Norton & Co., 416 pages, $35) During a time when many are ...

Dog owners have been warned to avoid some beaches in north Cornwall following reports of hemlock water dropwort roots and reports of pets becoming "very unwell". Reports of dogs dying from ingestion ...

Morality confronts us at every turn, from intimate relations to political considerations. When faced with moral uncertainty, ...

Her superpowers as a philosopher sprung out of the frustration at getting her thoughts and herself across to people who ...

OPEN SOCRATES: The Case for a Philosophical Life, by Agnes Callard Maybe this ... politicians in Athens and before being sentenced to death. Callard was so enthralled by Socratic philosophy ...

politics and death. Callard's book is intellectually challenging and hardly a simple crash course on Socrates, but the payoff is worth the time and effort put into rethinking approaches to philosophy ...

But in “Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life,” Agnes Callard illustrates ... discussion on topics such as love, politics and death. Callard's book is intellectually challenging ...