Dear Socrates

Dear Socrates

Having returned from the turn of the Fourth Century B.C. to the turn of the Twenty-First A.D., Socrates has eagerly signed on as a Philosophy Now columnist so that he may continue to carry out his divinely-inspired dialogic mission.

Dear Socrates,

You ask us to submit arguments and not just ask questions; all right, I will do that. It seems likely that during your two and a half thousand years’ absence, you have not noticed fully a profound change in the human condition, namely, the huge increase in human know-how. Of science you write, “It is really like reading a fictional narrative. ..

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