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

The Republic, the best-known work of ancient Greek philosopher Plato, authored around 375BC, has shaped western political ...

Born in 427 BC, Plato fled Athens in 399 BC after Socrates was executed, blaming democracy and the Peloponnesian War for his teacher's death. An aristocrat and an elitist, much of what we know ...

During Socrates' youth Athens was a city at the height of its power and the intellectual center of the Greek world. The spirit of openness which democracy encouraged had given rise to new fields ...

Robertson describes Socrates' Athens in terms that seem all too familiar: a society recovering from a pandemic where people's trust in government is shaken, and an extremely polarized split ...

Constitutively annoying: the statue of Socrates outside the National Academy of Athens Credit: iStockphoto On the contrary, Callard suggests, what Socrates proposes is the overcoming of ignorance ...

5/5 The Spartans break down Athenian walls. Socrates' card is marked.