The counterintuitive Socrates
“I don’t know what wisdom is, but I’ll show you a man who embodies it”
Socrates haunts the margins of certainty. He arrives not with answers, but with questions sharp enough to draw blood. In the dialogues of Plato, Socrates is not the wise man we want—calm, self-assured, offering comforting truths. He’s the one who waits at the edge of our convictions a…