During Socrates' youth Athens was a city at the height of its power and the intellectual center of the Greek world ... but before he began his career as a philosopher, he was destined for more ...
Should Socrates be held responsible for the actions of his pupils, particularly those among them who had joined the tyrants? Timed by a water clock, the old philosopher remained as stubborn as ever.
In “How to Think Like Socrates: Ancient Philosophy as a Way of Life in the ... slogging through Plato and multiple volumes of ancient Greek history. But the book is inconsistent and difficult ...