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Agnes Callard

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in Budapest, Hungary

January 06, 1976

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https://philosophy.uchicago.edu/faculty/a-callard

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Agnes Callard is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago. Her primary areas of specialization are ancient philosophy and ethics. She is also noted for her popular writings and work on public philosophy.

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Average rating: 3.84 · 1,215 ratings · 224 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors

	Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life 3.90 avg rating — 725 ratings — published 2025 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming 3.76 avg rating — 203 ratings — published 2018 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On Anger (Boston Review Forum 13) by Agnes Callard (Editor), Paul Bloom (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Judith Butler (Contributor) 3.67 avg rating — 153 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Case Against Travel 3.97 avg rating — 64 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Radical Humility: Essays on Ordinary Acts by Rebekah Modrak (Goodreads Author), Aaron Ahuvia (Contributor), Russell Belk (Contributor) 3.67 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics: Spring 2021 by Giles Kepel, Ingrid Rowland, Vladimir Kara-Murza 3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sokrates: Wie man durch ein philosophisches Leben die Angst vor fast allem verliert by Agnes Callard, Antje Korsmeier (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“It is not hard to admit that you were wrong, but very hard to admit that you are wrong.”
― Agnes Callard, Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life

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“The Socratic motto is not, “Question everything,” but “Persuade or be persuaded.”
― Agnes Callard, Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life

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“When one makes a radical life change, one does not submit oneself to be changed by some transformative event or object; one’s agency runs all the way through to the endpoint. The nature of that agency, as I shall argue, is one of learning: coming to acquire the value means learning to see the world in a new way. But this, in turn, means that the process of valuing motherhood and the process of becoming a mother are not two separate events flanking a moment of decision, but rather one and the same process”
― Agnes Callard, Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming

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