Should We Aspire To Be Socratic?

Agnes Callard's Socrates and the Helpfulness of Being Selfish

Here’s a great new article on Socrates and collaborative truth seeking by Agnes Callard.

One point Callard makes is that Socrates’s main motivation for refuting people is self-interested. Socrates needs people who are willing to speak freely about the beliefs they hold so that he can refine his ignorance, moving from a generic cluelessness about things t…