Thinking Together: A Socratic Dialogue with Christopher Phillips

MP3 Download Imagine sitting in a little cafe, sipping coffee with Socrates, asking questions such as "Who are we? What is truth? Why question?" With his love of asking questions, Christopher Phillips does just this. In 1996, the former journalist and schoolteacher, started on a journey across America introducing his love of questions, using the Socratic method with anyone who was interested. In creating his first Socrates Cafe, he created an atmosphere of free exchange and energetic thinking, reviving the pleasures of examining one's most cherished beliefs. These dialogues do not just take place in cafes, bookstores or coffeehouses, but in prisons, hospices, libraries, nursing homes, homeless shelters and schools for at-risk kids as well as gifted kids. Phillips has since roamed back and forth across the country forming lasting communities of inquiry, composed of people, he says, "who have nothing in common beyond an immense respect for one another's point of view and a curiosity that