Socrates is the most important exponent of Western philosophy, his ideas forming a continuum from Ancient Greece to today's ...

The Death of Socrates, by Jacques-Louis David (1787). Source: Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain The story goes that Socrates had a characterful friend called Chaerephon who went to Delphi and boldly ...

More than 2,000 years ago, the philosopher Socrates wandered around Athens asking questions, an approach to finding truth that thinkers have venerated ever since. In modern times, the Socratic method ...

Life seems upside down these days. Politicians choose their voters by redistricting, universities their missions by giving in to government demands, some newspapers and media networks follow the paths ...

The words of Socrates, "Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom," echo through time, providing insight into the nature of knowledge and self-awareness. This seemingly straightforward ...

With the forethought of a master chess player, Rick Matthews poses a series of questions to his political philosophy students, pitting them against each other, and sometimes even themselves. Within ...

“Socrates is to philosophy what Jesus is to religion.” So says Peter Kreeft, Boston College philosophy professor and popular Catholic thinker, in introducing his primer on Socratic thought. It quickly ...