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Open Socrates

The Case for a Philosophical Life

• I had trouble attempting to read this, too tangled and monotonous, mangled metaphors as nouns, gave up on page 65

• 2025 . Agnes Callard . 182.2 CAL . Beaverton Lib.

• p001 Introduction: The Man Whose Name is an Example

• p11 Keynes "Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually slaves of some defunct economist"
  • Gee, Dr. Keynes, how do you detect belief, and how do you define slavery such that it does not include yourself?

• p12 Henry Sidgwick

• p12 Bentham/Mill/Sidgwick draw from ancient Epicureanism, Kant indebted to ancient Stoicism.

  • what did they spend the other 99% of their thinking time drawing from? sarcasm: Surely not experience, observation, theorizing, testing, arguing, and revision

• p13 Kantianism

• p13 Epicureanism

• p15 The Socratic motto is not "Question everything" but "Persuade or be persuaded"
• p16 Socrates denies that it is possible to act against one's better judgement
  • BS, people act without thinking, then ignore/deny the consequences or make excuses
• p16 Socrates denies that anyone ever deserves to be harmed. define "deserve" please
• p17 we experience ourselves as fully saturated by critical-thinking sauce. More absolutism

• p20 Moore's paradox

• p21 Socrates would accuse us all of treating corpses in a superstitious manner. More absolutism

Part One: UNTIMELY QUESTIONS

• p025 ch01 The Tolstoy Problem

• p27 untimely question comes after it has been answered

• p28 Tolstoy What will become of my entire life?

• p28 "Why seek material prosperity?" Define prosperity.
  • Why choose a tiny subset of all the questions possible?
  • Why ignore the uncountable number of other questions, and the individuals who prefer to answer those?
• p31 Tolstoy moves from dismissal to reverential awe. Inquiry always gets ruled out in advance.
  • as does author Callard, ranking and dismissing practically every other question.
• p32 Tolstoy questioned the meaning of life, but never answered the questions he chose to ask.
• p34 life is meaningless, suicide is mandated ... attributed to Tolstoy
• p39 others close questions and move on, "Socrates sees this as wavering"

• p41 Bertrand Russell "emotive conjugation:"

  • I am firm, you are obstinate, he is a pig-headed fool.
  • I am righteously indignant, you are annoyed, he is making a fuss over nothing.
  • I have reconsidered the matter, you have changed your mind, he has gone back on his word.

• p46 novelist Elena Ferrante fiction is a refuge from the lies

  • Or it is the pure essence of lies. Or it is a timewaster. Or it is sugar-coated profundity. Or ...
  • It is more interesting that Elena Ferrante intentionally and successfully remains anonymous. Where do they send the galleys for proofreading?
• p47 Ferrante thinks that seriously reflecting on life is terrifying.
  • Hence novellist, also shielded from dyadic conversation
• p50 But the only explanation for why a person would put on this show (of conceptual infrastructure) is that she wants it to be reality.
  • KL there's more to life than show. Ask a hermit. Life is vastly too large to "make sense of it", most of the time. Enjoy the ride, sharing it with others when possible.

• p051 ch02 Load Bearing Answers

• p62 Socrates says we fight when we disagree about justice, but not when we disagree about health. bullshit, citation needed.
• p65 "parties fight because they see the question as in some way objective, in spite of the impossibility of measurement"

• STOPPED READING HERE

• How do philosophers measure impossibility? That's your own tail you are chasing.

• p077 ch03 Savage Commands

• p110 ch04 Socratic Intellectualism

Part Two THE SOCRATIC METHOD

• p143 Introduction to Part Two: Three Paradoxes

• p147 ch05 The Gadfly-Midwife Paradox

• p176 ch06 Moore's Paradox of Self-Knowledge

• p208 ch07 Meno's Paradox

Part Three SOCRATIC ANSWERS

• p245 Introduction to Part Three: The Socratizing Move

• p250 ch08 Politics: Justice and Liberty

• p274 ch09 Politics: Equality

• p298 ch10 Love

• p334 ch11 Death