Philosophers are constitutively irritating: this is both their great power and their greatest weakness. Imagine the kind of ...

Yet Socrates had been a courageous soldier defending Athens ... What little is known, Mr. Gatton explains, is shrouded in vague allusions to some kind of transcendental event. An expert in optics, ...

Should Socrates be held responsible for the actions ... The Origin of the Olympic Games (Event Page: First Olympics 776 BC) According to tradition the first Olympics took place in 776 BC.

Cafe Socrates is a weekly undergraduate philosophy discussion group. We meet every Wednesday from 4 to 6 PM, though people are not expected to stay for the whole two hours and often drop in for just a ...

Socrates was born in 469 BC. His father was a stonemason and his mother was a midwife, a profession he would later use to characterize himself, since he would later describe himself as a midwife ...