Bettany Hughes’s biography of Socrates is a book that Socrates himself, on a mean day, would have torn to shreds. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive ...

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Socrates was notoriously annoying. He was likened to a gadfly buzzing around while one is trying to sleep. The Oracle of Delphi declared him the wisest of all human beings. His life and death would go ...

“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 ...

The lessons of Socrates have never really gone out of style, but if there’s ever a perfect time to revisit the ancient philosopher, now is it. In “How to Think Like Socrates: Ancient Philosophy as a ...

The lessons of Socrates have never really gone out of style, but if there's ever a perfect time to revisit the ancient philosopher, now is it. In "How to Think Like Socrates: Ancient Philosophy as a ...