Socrates, Is There a Law?

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Kratik: If you were to read all the dialogues, which I believe you have, and boil it down into a kind of bottom line essential takeaway, what's going on in them as a whole? He says there's a set of ethical doctrines that are the groundwork of Socrates's life. Kratik: The other thing they're doing is giving you what philosophy is at the time, that is, they're showing you philosophy.

Is a written dialogue the best way to learn from philosopher Agnes Callard?

If so, what does that say about philosophy? Is Plato’s Symposium about love or mere intoxication? If good people lived forever, would they be less bored than the bad people? Should we fear death? Is parenting undertheorized? Must philosophy rely on refutation? Should we read the classics? Is Jordan Peterson’s moralizing good? Should we take Socrates at his word? Is Hamlet a Cartesian? Are we all either Beethoven or Mozart people? How do we get ourselves to care about things we don’t yet care about? To what should we aspire to?

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