Philosophers are constitutively irritating: this is both their great power and their greatest weakness. Imagine the kind of ...

In the year 399 BC, seventy years after he was born, Socrates was brought before the Athenian court on charges of impiety and corrupting the city's youth. His belief that the gods must be good or ...

After Socrates had been found guilty of impiety ... Led away to the city's prison house, his trial and last days became the subject of Plato's 'Crito & Phaedo'. Visited by many people, he faced ...

Not so fast! says Socrates, in Plato’s account of the trial, you don’t escape philosophy so easily: “You did this thinking that you would avoid giving an account of your life, but I maintain ...