The project of Socratic love with Agnes Callard
Philosopher Agnes Callard on the benefits of making your personal life public
May 1, 2023
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The project of Socratic love with Agnes Callard
Summary
What happens when you apply the Socratic method to personal relationships? Philosopher Agnes Callard joins Sean Illing to discuss how Socrates inspires her public philosophy project —including the decision to share the details of her love life and how these pursuits have created a more thoughtful and meaningful life.
Host: Sean Illing (@seanilling), host, The Gray Area
Guest: Agnes Callard, (@agnescallard), philosopher, University of Chicago
References:
“Agnes Callard’s Marriage Of The Minds” by Rachel Aviv (Mar. 2023, The New Yorker)
”Everyone Desires the Good: Socrates' Protreptic Theory of Desire” by Agnes Callard (June 2017, The Review of Metaphysics)
“A Philosopher Gets Fed Up With Profundity” by Agnes Callard (Mar. 2023, The Atlantic)
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Plato, Symposium
Plato, Meno
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