In Socrates among Strangers, Joseph P. Lawrence reclaims the
enigmatic sage from those who have seen him either as a prophet of
science, seeking the security of knowledge, or as a wily actor who
shed light on the dangerous world of politics while maintaining a
prudent distance from it. The Socrates Lawrence seeks is the
imprudent one, the man who knew how to die. The
institutionalization of philosophy in the modern world has come at
the cost of its most vital concern: the achievement of life wisdom.
Those who have ceased to grow (those who think they know) close
their ears to the wisdom of strangers-and Socrates, who stood face
to face with death, is the archetypal stranger. His avowal of
ignorance, Lawrence suggests, is more needed than ever in an age
defined by technical mastery and expert knowledge.
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