Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Almost 2,500 years after his death, Socrates continues to fascinate. The Greek thinker is seen, by some, as the father of philosophy, a martyr for the ...

In her review of “Plato Goes to China” by Shadi Bartsch (Bookshelf, Feb. 27), Martha Bayles rightly defends Leo Strauss against the charge that the professor was an antidemocrat who would have favored ...

You could be forgiven (but what’s the fun in that), if you were to think. Looking at Jacques-Louis David’s neoclassical painting The Death of Socrates, you could believe you’re seeing Socrates giving ...

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 ...

Socrates’ method was to clear his students’ minds of abstractions and assumptions, so that they might attain self-knowledge and learn the practical wisdom of living well. His pupil Plato, however, ...