About halfway through this interview, my guest stopped answering my questions and started asking me his.
I have recorded 300+ conversations on SingularityFM. Being cross-examined on my own show by the man who literally wrote the book on the Socratic method was not in my notes.
Donald J. Robertson is a cognitive-behavioral psychotherapist, a founding member of Modern Stoicism, and president of the Plato’s Academy Center in Athens. His book, How to Think Like Socrates, makes a claim most of us have forgotten: ancient philosophy was never a body of theory. It was a training regime for the mind.
We recorded this in January 2025. Watching it back now, it reads less like a conversation about #Philosophy and more like a warning about the last eighteen months.
Socrates refused to write anything down. He distrusted a technology that let people carry around answers they had not personally earned.
Twenty-five centuries later, we have machines that will hand us any answer we want, instantly, in fluent and confident prose.
