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Dear Socrates
Dear Socrates
Having returned from the turn of the Fourth Century B.C. to the turn of the Twenty-First A.D., Socrates has eagerly signed on as a Philosophy Now columnist so that he may continue to carry out his divinely-inspired dialogic mission.
Dear Socrates,
I read your comment to P. Difford on objectivism and relativism (Issue 45). A possible view, which Niels Bohr might have liked, is that the two currents are not opposite but complementary. For example, before he finds the answer to the question whether his uncle Claudius is a murderer, Hamlet is a relativist. That is, the proposition “Claudius is guilty” and the proposition “Claudius is innocent” are both ‘true' before the true truth is found.
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