For ancient Greek philosopher Socrates, the soul lives in the ideal realm, as it is eternal, unchanging, and survives the ...

The classical Greek philosopher Socrates is a fixture of literature and culture, but his legacy is complicated by the fact that what we know of him hasn't come to us directly from him, but from a ...

Socrates and Confucius are the founders of Western and Eastern Philosophy respectively, and their teachings bare many ...

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“SAINT SOCRATES, PRAY for us,” Erasmus remarked in one of his Colloquia. For thousands of years, since his trial and death in 399 BCE, we have seen Socrates as a martyr to truth: doing what the gods ...

The Man known to history as Socrates or socratis in Greek was born between 470 and 468 BC in the village of alopi a suburb of the Greek city state of Athens which lay just to the southeast of the city ...

University of Oxford provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Where did Socrates, the foundational figure of Western philosophy, get the inspiration for his original ideas about truth, ...

In Plato’s cave, humans watch silhouettes flicker on the wall, unaware that fires just behind them are distorting reality into a shadow world – not unlike the world we find ourselves in today, aided ...

Editor's note: This story was originally published Nov. 18, 2015, the 30th anniversary of the Socrates grounding. It has been lightly edited for the 40th anniversary. It was a quintessential ...