The project of Socratic love with Agnes Callard

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, News, Politics, News Commentary, Philosophy

4.6 • 10.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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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 Enjoyed this episode? Rate The Gray Area ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ and leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Subscribe for free. Be the first to hear the next episode of The Gray Area. Subscribe in your favorite podcast app. Support The Gray Area by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts This episode was made by: Engineer: Patrick Boyd Editorial Director, Vox Talk: A.M. Hall Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:27.7	If I asked you to imagine the stereotypical philosopher, there's a decent chance Socrates is the
1:34.4	figure that springs to mind. Which makes plenty of sense. Socrates is arguably the founder of
1:42.4	the entire tradition of Western philosophy. And you probably know at least one thing Socrates said,
1:49.9	an unexamined life is not worth living. In Socrates truly lived this principle. He was famous in
1:57.6	Athens for his devotion to truth and to figuring out what it means to live a good life. And he did
2:03.6	that by roaming around the city and engaging anyone he could in conversations about justice and law
2:11.1	in the nature of wisdom. Philosophy wasn't just a way of life for Socrates. It was something
2:18.6	best done with other people. This is why he was so committed to dialogue and public inquiry.
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