Socrates Cafe
We meet the first Thursday of each month at 6 PM and the third Thursday of each month at 1 PM at the Palm Harbor Library. Please contact Betcinda Kettells at 727 784-3332 x3006 for more information.
Please visit our blog at http://palmharborsocratescafe.blogspot.com
- National History- Founder Christopher Phillips travels around the world, facilitating hundreds of Socrates Cafés, in which ordinary people gather to ask questions--and questions about questions. He has been a teacher, a journalist, and is the founder and executive director of the nonprofit Society for Philosophical Inquiry (SPI). His books “Socrates Café: a fresh taste of philosophy” and “Six questions of Socrates: a modern-day journey of discovery through world philosophy” have fueled the worldwide movement.
- The Goal of Socrates Café- Socrates Cafe facilitators are devoted to spreading forms of inquiry that enable and inspire each participant, within a group setting, to become a more autonomous and conscientious thinker and doer, a more expert questioner and listener. A paramount aim of ours is to inspire people who are curious, perplexed and filled with an insatiable sense of wonder, so they can dialogue for discovery. We also strive to enable those who share our deep concern about the state and straits of civility and civic-mindedness to dialogue for democracy.
- How it works- At the beginning of each session the group votes on one topic to be discussed for the duration of the meeting. The questions come from the participants at the end of the previous café. There are few rules and they pertain only to manners. Everyone who wishes to speak gets the opportunity, interruptions are not allowed. We operate on the premise of civil discourse.
Related sites:: www.philosopher.org or www.christopherphillips.com