Socrates’s insistence on challenging Athenian culture might be one of Western intellectual tradition’s greatest gifts — a ...

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

Socrates’ claim that the unexamined life is not worth living makes a satisfying climax for the deeply principled arguments he presents on behalf of the philosophical life. The claim is that only in ...

For the Ancient Greeks, virtue was the most important quality a person could have, and being virtuous was the absolute goal ...

The Greek philosopher Socrates as imagined in this statue in Athens. It is made of white marble by sculputer Leonidas Drosis. Socrates is famous for saying, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” ...

Socrates, an ancient Greek philosopher, believed that we are personally responsible for examining and understanding our own lives, a basic tenet behind his philosophical argument to “know thyself.” He ...

Are Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert the Socrates and Diogenes of our time? Indeed so, say philosophers in a new collection of essays about the two satirists and their verbal skewering of politicians ...

Nearly 2,425 years ago, the Greek philosopher Socrates told prosecutors at his trial, "The unexamined life is not worth living." One charge against him, related to the examined life, was that he had ...

Legend has it that Socrates asked the Oracle of Delphi who was the wisest person in Athens. The Oracle said that he was because he alone was prepared to admit his own ignorance rather than pretend to ...

When philosophy professors contemplate the “philosophical life,” it tends not to be their own. Socrates, who brilliantly initiated dialectical back and forth, then nobly died for his beliefs, works as ...