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

In the final days of Socrates’s life, as he waited for his execution in an Athenian prison, his closest friend, Crito, visited him, waking him from a glorious dream. In that dream, a woman in white ...

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

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 ...

Phiroze Vasunia is Professor of Greek at University College London and the author, most recently, of 'The Classics and Colonial India' (Oxford, 2013). Why was Gandhi compared so frequently to Socrates ...

Véliz is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Ethics in AI at the University of Oxford, the author of Privacy Is Power, and the editor of the Oxford Handbook ...

Plato wasn't just criticizing Homer. He was competing with him, offering Greece a new mythology with new heroes.