Socrates is the most important exponent of Western philosophy, his ideas forming a continuum from Ancient Greece to today's ...

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 ...

Today, reading and writing are considered essential to function in modern society, but more than 2,400 years ago in Ancient ...

The most important part of knowledge, in Socrates' view? Knowing how much you don't know. Yoeml/iStock via Getty Images Plus But each dilemma usually comes down to polarized deadlock between two ...

In Benjamin Franklin’s famous list of thirteen virtues toward personal perfection, he urges his readers to “Imitate Jesus and Socrates.” As a teacher, I try to live up to this call. We hear a lot ...

Produced in collaboration with the UK’s Lion Television and inspired by the best-selling book by Greek writer Christos ...