The Thinker as ArtistIn an attempt to subject representative texts of a dozen ancient authors to a more or less Socratic inquiry, the noted scholar George Anastaplo suggests in The Thinker as Artist how one might usefully read as well as enjoy such texts, which illustrate the thinking done by the greatest artists and how they talk among themselves across the centuries. In doing so, he does not presume to repeat the many fine things said about these and like authors, but