The document discusses several philosophers and their views on living dangerously, self-discovery, love, sex, and family. It compares Hunter S. Thompson to Socrates in their commitment to advancing ideals through dangerous living. It discusses views from Freud, Roth, Russell and others on topics like introspection, sex with and without love, deceiving children, and being willing to die for one's beliefs.

25. Hunter S. Thompson, a "gadfly's gadfly"... though in other respects he was anything but Socratic... even if Socrates also had a self-destructive streak. But like Socrates, he was committed to living dangerously in order to advance human ideals. That's why he wrote Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas . CP: A place such as Vegas made a mockery of what real gambling, for the greater good of citizenry and humanity, was supposed to be all about. 43-4

26. Freud, like Socrates, said “know thyself.” But real self-discovery is not about past-dwelling personal introspection. It's about advancing society as you discover yourself. 46

27. A character in Philip Roth's The Human Stain thinks sex is best when unalloyed with romance, when a couple has no mutual feelings other than those generated by pure sexual arousal. But even so-so sex with love is far better than the best 'just sex' with no love... “Ray” 58 http://www.powells.com/review/2007_09_25 Hitchens, Atlantic reviews “Exit Ghost”

28. Thompson's exit, like his life, was remarkable and strange... http://www.cbc.ca/.../Arts/Thompson_Farewell_0820.html

30. Bertrand Russell's “radical” sexual ethic: "Love is what gives intrinsic value to a marriage..." 33 Russell also said, in “Our Sexual Ethics” (1936): “ There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence in them and feel justified in lying to them.” Asked whether he would be prepared to die for his beliefs, Russell retorted – in what some would say is a more Socratic spirit than Socrates himself mustered, in “Crito” - Of course not. After all, I may be wrong. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/russell/ Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

31. Bertrand Russell's “radical” sexual ethic: "Love is what gives intrinsic value to a marriage..." 33 Russell also said, in “Our Sexual Ethics” (1936): “ There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence in them and feel justified in lying to them.” Asked whether he would be prepared to die for his beliefs, Russell retorted – in what some would say is a more Socratic spirit than Socrates himself mustered, in “Crito” - Of course not. After all, I may be wrong. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/russell/ Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

32. Bertrand Russell's “radical” sexual ethic: "Love is what gives intrinsic value to a marriage..." 33 Russell also said, in “Our Sexual Ethics” (1936): “ There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence in them and feel justified in lying to them.” Asked whether he would be prepared to die for his beliefs, Russell retorted – in what some would say is a more Socratic spirit than Socrates himself mustered, in “Crito” - Of course not. After all, I may be wrong. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/russell/ Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)