The method is the message

I have never stopped reading Plato. I’ve had some wide interruptions, yes, but I would always come back to him. What drives me back? The elenchus method? The aporetic endings? The stubborn ‘how’ questions Socrates never tires of?

I find Socrates’ method more attractive than the ideas laid out, even though that’s not to say I don’t find many of them compe…