He wrote nothing. He claimed to know nothing. He taught by pretending not to teach, questioned by pretending not to have answers, and led the most examined life in the history of Western philosophy — and then, when Athens offered him the choice between his life and his vocation, he chose the vocation. He wasContinue reading “The Gadfly and the Hemlock: Who We Are According to Socrates”
Tag Archives: Socrates
To Whom Little Is Not Enough: On Sufficiency, Excess, and the Self That Cannot Stop Wanting
The Greeks had a precise diagnosis for the condition that defines our age. They called it pleonexia — the desire for more, the wanting that has no natural limit, the reaching that cannot stop because it does not know what it is reaching for. They considered it not merely a practical error but a moralContinue reading “To Whom Little Is Not Enough: On Sufficiency, Excess, and the Self That Cannot Stop Wanting”
