Democracy Café

Our latest podcast is with Noor Al-Hajji, organizer and facilitator of the Socrates Cafes in her hometown of Al-Hassa, Saudi Arabia, as well as at Arabian Gulf University in Bahrain, where both men and women from a number of countries in the Middle East take part. In her latest exchange with us, Noor shares in a most passionate and eloquent way how the version of philosophical inquiry she and I both seek to advance the world over via Socrates Cafe connects us to the past (including to Socrates) and the future, and how it cultivates an all-important ethical dimension that ideally drives a keener social conscience. Noor, a graduate student in the field of Geographic Information Systems, makes a remarkable comparison between her studies and philosophical inquiry, and how the unseen dimensions -- whether a band on the spectrum of an image, or an abstraction of a philosophical concept -- should drive our everyday actions, and in ways that in turn cultivate individual and societal excellence. Listen in. (I'm very