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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

The project of Socratic love with Agnes Callard

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Alternative View of Philosophy

Aniccha hated Plato and Socrates, because he felt the pursuit of ultimate truth eventually ends in a ditch. He thinks that perhaps philosophers have spent too much time thinking the great aim of life is to know when maybe it's better to just experience it. And I'm not sure how much I buy all that, but it's a strain of thought I can't quite let go of. It's potentially a terminal critique of your boy, our boy, Socrates.

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