had begun his famous 'Histories': our first record of Ancient Greek life. Undoubtedly the young Socrates absorbed many of these exciting new influences as he walked through Athens' teeming streets ...

In “Open Socrates,” the scholar Agnes Callard argues that the ancient Greek philosopher offers a blueprint for an ethical ...

Knowledge is considered good and right as it leads to understanding and wisdom whereas ignorance only leads to the path of ...

Pondering in this way doesn’t necessarily preclude what we sometimes call “having a life”, but the tendency can induce bouts of sighing in more pragmatic people. Socrates was famously so ...

The Case for a Philosophical Life” is a look at how the ancient Greek philosopher's approach can be applied to the thorniest ...