Top executives from the company behind Alfonso Cuarón's 'Disclaimer' and 'Spotlight' discussed its joint ventures in Spain and Brazil at Iberseries & Platino Industria in Madrid. By Georg Szalai ...

“SAINT SOCRATES, PRAY for us,” Erasmus remarked in one of his Colloquia. For thousands of years, since his trial and death in 399 BCE, we have seen Socrates as a martyr to truth: doing what the gods ...

Born Sócrates Brasileiro Sampaio de Souza Vieira de Oliveira, Sócrates captained Brazil at both the 1982 and 1986 World Cups. Sòcrates has his father to thank for his unusual name. His father was from ...

The Death of Socrates (detail, 1787), Jacques-Louis David - Getty Philosophers are constitutively irritating: this is both their great power and their greatest weakness. Imagine the kind of person ...

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.

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HOW TO THINK LIKE SOCRATES: Ancient Philosophy as a Way of Life in the Modern World. By Donald J. Robertson. St. Martin's Press. 368 pages. $30. The lessons of Socrates have never really gone out of ...

British historian Bettany Hughes brings Socrates to life 25 centuries after his death in The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life. Sarah Turton / Eyevine / Redux Sure, ...

When we talk about education, and about tutoring in particular, we often speak of the Socratic method. Often what we mean when we refer to that method is simply something like a question-and-answer ...

An impoverished Brazilian teenager struggles for survival after the death of his mother in Alexandre Moratto's debut feature, 'Socrates.' By Frank Scheck Would that all student-affiliated projects ...