New Philosopher

THE INTELLIGENT FOOL

hen Socrates searched Athens for someone intelligent – specifically a person who was wiser than he was – he encountered something unexpected. “Those with the greatest reputations seemed to me,” he proclaimed, “practically the most deficient [in common

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