Socrates is widely regarded as the father of Western philosophy. In ancient Greece, he encouraged people to ask questions and promoted critical thinking as a way for citizens to live more fulfilling ...

Socrates didn’t fear death. Even though he met a gruesome demise (he was executed by the state for the alleged crime of corrupting Athenian youth), Socrates didn’t flee or plead before his executioner ...

Barefoot, ugly, and infuriating, Socrates lived as remarkably as he died. Vijay Tankha’s Socrates: The Barefoot Philosopher ...

The Academy became the model for what a real university should be: a place of honest inquiry, moral formation, and resistance to every ideology, as thinkers from antiquity to Newman have affirmed. On ...