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The project of Socratic love with Agnes Callard

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Importance of Daydreaming

Socrates thought that the only way for us to really know anything is to interrogate the world with other people. So I think Socrates saw that social inquisitive process as how we come to know things, but I think he thought if you actually knew, you could hold on to it. But that thinking about those questions was possible. It's just not a thing you can do by yourself.

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