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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,

I am a university student. For some while I have been going through tough times in my life, personally as well as academically. My near and dear ones tell me that it’s because of some of my habits, which they consider to be weird. None of this bothered me until recently, when I had a major academic failure. This led me to introspect, and after long hours of pensiveness I have realized that some of my traits could be seen as abnormal behavior.

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