There were three areas of human life where Socrates thought our ignorance loomed largest: politics, love, and death. Two and a half millennia later, these remain humanity’s problem areas. Even as the explosion of scientific and technological knowledge has created massive improvements in many areas of our lives, we remain at sea when it comes to managing politics, handling love affairs, and confronting our mortality. Socratic ethics involves living a truly philosophical life, and it tells you that the way you should conduct yourself in each of these three domains is: inquisitively.