WHY AGORA?
The historical Socrates brought philosophy down from the heavens to thrive in the streets of the agora — the marketplace. We offer dramatic performances of dialogues by Plato, Berkeley, and Hume to help recapture this valuable Socratic tradition. In addition to those dialogues, we also offer new translations and oral interpretations of essays by philosophers such as Aristotle, Descartes, Kant, Mill, Nietzsche, Bergson, and Whitehead.
Our primary goal is to help the listener and reader understand the importance of the ideas and concepts in those works more quickly and deeply.
We begin by revising the texts to make them more accessible to contemporary readers while leaving them unabridged, always striving to be faithful to their original meaning. Then we perform audio versions to bring them to life for listeners. In this way we contribute to the marketplace of ideas and continue the rich philosophical tradition in which careful and precise thinking blend with literary and poetic creation.
Our primary goal is to help the listener and reader understand the importance of the ideas and concepts in those works more quickly and deeply.
We begin by revising the texts to make them more accessible to contemporary readers while leaving them unabridged, always striving to be faithful to their original meaning. Then we perform audio versions to bring them to life for listeners. In this way we contribute to the marketplace of ideas and continue the rich philosophical tradition in which careful and precise thinking blend with literary and poetic creation.