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 ...

In 399 B.C., a jury of 500 fellow Athenians convicted Socrates of impiety and corrupting the young, and then affirmed the prosecution’s recommendation of a death sentence. Refusing his friends’ ...

Socrates, an Athenian philosopher, pioneered the Socratic method of questioning to challenge assumptions about truth and ...

Socrates was a philosopher who influenced countless of generations. Walking through the crowded pathways of Classical Athens, ...