The WC-ALL Socrates Café
Finding opportunities for unhurried, face-to-face discussion of life’s big questions can be challenging in today’s hyper-noisy, technology-driven world.
What does it mean to live a “good” or ethical life these days? In a society with instant and ubiquitous connections, what is friendship? What is wisdom, and where do we go to find it?
Drawing on the Socratic tradition of lively, open-ended inquiry, WC-ALL’s Socrates Café is a forum for exploring questions that don’t have easy right-or-wrong answers. There are no assigned readings, and each session’s topic is selected by those in attendance. The only prerequisite for participation is a willingness to listen respectfully as others share their thoughts and experiences.
The WC-ALL Socrates Café is modeled on the work of journalist Christopher Phillips, who has facilitated hundreds of public philosophical discussions since the mid-1990s. His several books drawing on those conversations include Socrates Café: A Fresh Taste of Philosophy and Six Questions of Socrates.
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JEFF COOMER is a Washington College graduate and the retired CIO of a multi-billion
division of a Fortune 250 company. He is currently a member of the volunteer Council
that oversees the College’s Academy of Lifelong Learning program, where he has taught
courses on Buddhism, Stoic philosophy, poetry, and trees.