Callard is a University of Chicago moral philosopher with a madcap streak, and a perpetually controversial figure for making ...

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

Antisthenes, Cynic philosopher and tutor of Diogenes, championed simplicity, virtue, and freedom, influencing Stoic thought.

The Case for a Philosophical Life” is a look at how the ancient Greek philosopher's approach can be applied to the thorniest topics today.

She wants her book to do double duty: advance a “neo-Socratic ethics” that can pass muster with her fellow philosophers, and offer lay readers an accessible introduction to how “living a tru ...

Source: Fszalai / Pixabay In Open Socrates, Agnes Callard (a professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago and author of Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming) explicates and celebrates his ...

To any question you can ask, there’s apparently already an answer; in fact, there seem to be more answers than questions.

Agnes Callard doesn’t just admire Socrates, the philosopher forced by his fellow Athenians to drink hemlock in 399 BCE; she wants to be him. Entirely conscious of himself as an icon, Callard ...

But in “Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life,” Agnes Callard illustrates how philosophy isn't just a spectator sport. It requires engaging with one another and arguing with each ...