There are few works as unsettling as “The Republic.” Not because of its complexity or reputation but because it refuses to let us hide from the hardest questions: What is justice? Is it even possible?

CT isn’t about knowing something or not knowing it. It’s about knowing the difference between the two and applying thinking ...

“Socrates discovered that by working together ... We are used to hearing about the Socratic method when discussing philosophy or pedagogy (though Callard insists that what we call “the ...

Contractors give a spring cleaning to Robert Aitken's 1935 statue of Socrates, near the National Archives, in 2017. (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post) Philosopher Agnes Callard revels in ...

Callard is a University of Chicago moral philosopher with a madcap streak, and a perpetually controversial figure for making ...

Nor is what we like to call “the Socratic method”—teaching by asking questions until students produce the correct answers—what Socrates had in mind. Such attempts to mimic him miss the ...

You may have heard of the Socratic method, which indicates that the student should be doing 70% of the work, of the expression and communication, and the teacher should be doing 30%. We often see ...

The public philosopher on open relationships, free speech and why protests fail. By Pippa Bailey In the acknowledgements at the end of her new book, Open Socrates, the philosopher Agnes Callard writes ...