The Wisdom of Talking to Yourself

Was Socrates using a Psychological Trick to Gain Wisdom?

We could be forgiven for thinking that the philosophical ideas of Socrates, or at least those attributed to him, have already been studied quite exhaustively. Indeed, the scholarship began with Plato, Xenophon, and the other Socratics, carried on throughout many centuries, and still continues in universities today. Almost all of this research has been…