The Complexities of Love

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)
• Plato, Gorgias
• Plato, Symposium
• Plato, Meno

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• Engineer: Patrick Boyd
• Editorial Director, Vox Talk: A.M. Hall

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