Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Is Agnes Callard Making You Uncomfortable?

"...The reason Socratic ethics—or Socratizing, as Callard verbs it—hasn’t been more widely taken up, she thinks, is that it’s an intellectualist theory, and most of us are aversive to intellectualism. Though accustomed to thinking of myself as a thinker, reading Callard I often felt as the Neanderthals must have on encountering Homo sapiens—Is all this thinking really necessary? My nonphilosopher brain began to seize from epistemological overdrive when Callard spent roughly four pages elaborating every possible implication of the question, 'Where are my keys?'”
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https://newrepublic.com/article/190778/agnes-callard-philosopher-uncomfortable-questions

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