We are afraid to ask questions to the power brokers of our time, which makes us more likely to accept easy answers.

Review of Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life. By Agnes Callard. W.W. Norton & Company. 405 pp. $35. Many know that Socrates declared that “the unexamined life is not worth living.” And ...

Discover the top 9 most influential philosophers in history. Learn about their lives and ideas, from Socrates to Confucius, and discover how their teachings continue to impact us today.

Explore the bustling Athenian Agora where Socrates roamed, sparking philosophical discussions with his Socratic irony method.

Socrates’s ‘mistake,’ from the perspective of the powerful elite in Athens, was that he – like Charlie Kirk long after him – ...

More than two millennia ago, Plato recorded Socrates posing a riddle to a student: how to double the area of a square. The student tried the obvious—doubling each side—but stumbled. The true solution ...