The Death of Socrates, by Jacques-Louis David (1787). Source: Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain The story goes that Socrates had a characterful friend called Chaerephon who went to Delphi and ...

I am not in favor of canceling anyone, let alone Socrates, the patron saint of Western philosophy, a seeker of truth who spent his time pondering the good life and how to attain it. He was a ...

Well, I’m not saying that this 1971 film Socrates I ran across the other day succeeds at that, but the next time you’re reading a Platonic dialog featuring philosophy’s first hero you really ...