Socratic Dialogues

As an alternative to standard philosophical essays, I have, over the years, composed a number of Socratic Dialogues. I hope you find these as useful to read as I found them useful to write.

- Brent Silby

• Happiness - a short dialogue

• The Cosmological Argument

• The Problem of Evil

• Trouble at Work

• Why does my Life Matter?

• What is Knowledge?

• Punishment

• Does Technology Make Us More Intelligent?

• Road Rage

• Pest Control

• Is it Just to Kill Animals For Meat?

• Philosophy in Schools

• On Education

• Gun Ownership

• Technology: The Overstated Route to Happiness

• Computers in the Classroom

• Socialism vs Capitalism

• The Atheist and the Agnostic

• Opinion or Truth

• Sugar and Hyperactivity

• Moral Relativism