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The project of Socratic love with Agnes Callard

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Messiness of Thinking

I know you argue in a recent piece for the Atlantic that we shouldn't strive for profundity all the time, especially when we're talking to each other. I feel like this colors the way you communicate your ideas and conversations like this. What I mean is that you seem to want to show the messiness of thinking in real time. A lot of people who do what we do for a living don't do that because the messiness can be perceived as a lack of profundity or whatever the case may be.

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