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 ...

Plato and Socrates would have quite a few questions for Texas lawmakers.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This cover image released by St. Martin's Press shows "How to Think Like Socrates: Ancient Philosophy as a Way of Life in the ...

Next Thursday, Chicago's National Hellenic Museum will try to give Socrates a more fair trial than what he got in 399 BC, when he was sentenced to death for impiety. Some of the the country's most ...

'The more I read about Socrates, the less I wonder that they poisoned him.' Why should we still care about a man who did little in his life except talk, and who drank poison in an Athenian prison in ...

Michael Stuhlbarg plays the title role of the enduringly influential Greek philosopher in 'Socrates,' a world-premiere play by actor Tim Blake Nelson. By Frank Scheck It’s not a good sign when you’re ...