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Class, gender, race: The politics of self-care
Hindustan Times Delhi
|October 05, 2025
TIME SHARE } WHO GETS TO DECIDE?
It was Socrates who essentially said: Put your own mask on first.
A 4th-century-BCE book by his pupil, Plato, describes how two Athenian fathers sought Socrates out, looking for advice on how to best educate their sons.
Socrates redirected the conversation, Plato notes, to the critical philosophical question: How can we truly care for others without caring first for ourselves?
This story is from the October 05, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Delhi.
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