Sublime

think I understand justice, though I don’t in fact understand it.

Socratic conversation is inquisitive refutation.

At one point, Socrates’ interlocutor Alcibiades makes the claim that “the just differs from the advantageous.”

In this book, I aim to reintroduce Socratic ethics as a novel and distinctive ethical system, complete with its own core theses and distinctive ethical recommendations.

His usual modes of living neither collapse nor have to be suspended in the face of death.

(“This is how . . . ”).

Folk wisdom is another place to see wavering.

The “at” captures the sense in which her motivation has a target.

keep an open mind and inquire, moving toward what’s true and away from what’s false.