The Trial of Socrates: A City’s Fear of Truth Socrates had spent his life challenging people to think. He asked tough questions, exposed contradictions, and forced Athenians to examine their ...

Actually, Netanyahu would do well to read Plato, to learn about democracy and the rule of law, and to stand trial and accept the verdict. Instead, he is proving Socrates right: subverting the laws ...

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 ...

Socrates was tried in a religious court. He was condemned for disregarding Athens’ gods. If you look at the way he speaks at his trial, according to Plato, there seems to be a moment when he ...