This book should be of interest to inroductory coures in philosophy.

Socrates was the quintessential philosopher. He used philosophy to call everything into question, including even what he himself took for granted in calling everything into question!

As adults, we set aside the wondering curiosity we had as children. We live within a structure of answers that has silenced our fundamental questions. This book was written to jolt us to show us how to return to the innocent questioning that leaves security behind and gets its power not from answers but from the unknown.

Socrates, if he were here, might welcome students to philosophy in just this way-by pulling the rug out from under them, by cutting through the shield of answers that separates them from the wonder of true questioning