The Death of Socrates (detail, 1787), Jacques-Louis David - Getty Philosophers are constitutively irritating: this is both their great power and their greatest weakness. Imagine the kind of person ...

For ancient Greek philosopher Socrates, the soul lives in the ideal realm, as it is eternal, unchanging, and survives the ...

Like the generals he had defended many years before, the manner of his execution was to be the drinking of hemlock. As the hour drew near, everyone in the room broke down and wept except for Socrates ...

Is the endlessly examined life still worth a look? Given the choice between Socrates dead or alive, Western thinkers have preferred him dead. At least as a symbol. A symbol of what? That’s where it ...

Socrates was criminally charged, convicted by a jury, and sentenced to death in 399 B.C. He was accused and found guilty of two crimes: corrupting the youth of Athens by criticizing its democracy and ...

For some, it's the last real taste of innocence, and the first real taste of life.

In 399 B.C., a jury of 500 fellow Athenians convicted Socrates of impiety and corrupting the young, and then affirmed the prosecution’s recommendation of a death sentence. Refusing his friends’ ...

Jacque-Louis David's painting depicting the death of Socrates in prison about to drink hemlock given by his executioner. (Wikimedia Commons) In 1928, three years after the famed Scopes Trial over the ...

Florida Republican state Rep. Anthony Sabatini waded into the online fray around "cancel culture" with a nod to the ancient philosopher whom he calls his hero. "If Socrates was out philosophizing in ...

Plato, a student of great philosopher Socrates, founded the Academy in Athens and wrote philosophical dialogues. His work ...