Sokrates

A gem of a book, serious and wise, yet witty and playful. There is a question you are avoiding. Even now, as you read this sentence. You seem to be afraid of something. You tell yourself that you just don’t have the time. You are primarily focused on getting through the next 15 minutes. Your life is full. There is no room in it for the question: 'Why am I doing all of this?' 2500 years ago, a man came to the realization that confronting the fundamental and seemingly unanswerable questions of life was not the worst thing, but the best thing that ever happened to him. He believed that a life open to these questions and delving into them through conversations with others is not just for self-proclaimed intellectuals, but for everyone. Agnes Callard resurrects Socrates for our time, dusting off his greatest ideas and showing us how we can lead a good life that does not freeze in fear of life's big questions.