Why You Believe What You Believe (And How to Stop Being Wrong About It)

In 399 BCE, a jury of 501 Athenians voted to execute a man who had never stopped asking them to examine their own assumptions - and the world has been arguing about that decision ever since. You will learn why the question matters more than the answer, how to tell a broken argument from a solid one, which ethical framework you are already using without knowing it, and why the world you perceive is a sophisticated reconstruction rather than the thing itself.