Here's something we do in the salons
Leaders who are unable to articulate their own philosophical views and challenge those of others now risk losing their ability to exercise meaningful leadership.
What if to examine life means not to examine your own life, your own subjectivity, but rather literally to examine life?
Arthur Worthington expected to see symmetry. He expected regularity. He expected what he thought of as beauty. His mind, as he said, was “filled with an ideal splash - an “Auto-Splash” - whose perfection may never be realised.”
Like many of us, I want to be good and wise and happy. But would we recognise those things if we were given them?
Should the man save the stranger or his wife?
Perhaps Socrates is telling us that one of the biggest obstacles to wisdom is thinking that we already have it.