His most famous student, Plato, wrote dramatic dialogues about Socrates’s philosophical conversations with notable citizens of Athens. Socrates’s death at the hands of the Athenian Empire is ...

Robertson describes Socrates' Athens in terms that seem all ... Robertson's book is certainly easier than slogging through Plato and multiple volumes of ancient Greek history.

In his dialogues, Plato mentions an enigmatic figure who stands out both for her wisdom and her gender: a woman named Diotima ...

Plato, the most intelligent of Socrates’ students, laid the foundations of ethics, aesthetics, epistemology, metaphysics, and early forms of science. When Socrates was sentenced to death by the ...

In her latest book, Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life, Callard explores why inquiry—not certainty—is at the heart of philosophy. Her work is both deeply personal and inherently Socratic ...