This month we're featuring episodes from the archives where John and Ken focus on big thinkers born in May: Niccolò Machiavelli, Søren Kierkeegaard, Karl Marx, and John Stuart Mill. There's also an episode where Josh and Ray question the checkered legacy of Sigmund Freud, asking their colleague Blakey Vermeule "What Has Replaced Freud?"
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The Oracle of Delphi pronounced Socrates the wisest man in Athens. Paradoxically, what made him wise was that he knew that he did not know anything. Socrates was unique in possessing the virtue of intellectual humility. His wisdom was derived from his ability to recognize the limits of his own knowledge, and use this as the starting point for genuine enquiry.