The Man known to history as Socrates or socratis in Greek was born between 470 and 468 BC in the village of alopi a suburb of the Greek city state of Athens which lay just to the southeast of the city ...

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.

From Socrates to Confucius, the world’s most influential philosophers have shaped human thought, ethics, and society. Through ...

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