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Dear Socrates
Dear Socrates
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,
There is something about you philosophers that puzzles me: you supposedly believe in being logical, but what you call ‘logical’ often seems to me to be just the opposite. For example, I was having a discussion with one of your bunch the other day about doing medical research on animals. My interlocutor was one of these ‘animal rights’ people, who I find to be quite silly at times. She opposes any such research on animals, especially when it might cause them pain. I pointed out to her that if you want to find a painkiller, you must first have someone in pain.
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