In her new book, Callard makes the case that we should all live more philosophically but where does politics fit in?

which is filled with jealous and self-serving deities, and the jury had little difficulty in finding him guilty. The second charge of corrupting the city's youth raised a dilemma. Should Socrates ...

Perhaps only this: Socrates criticized the arrogant self-assertion of his culture ... That was and perhaps still is a revolutionary view, because it forces us to challenge preconceived ideas ...