As the Christmas season approaches, the image of Jesus’ birth in the manger — complete with Mary and Joseph kneeling over the infant, the three wise men, an angel and the animals looking on ...

The situation is more than exasperating. Socrates is believed to have been the son of a midwife and a stone mason. Although he was reduced to poverty in old age, he seems to have enjoyed a ...

The mother of the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates was a midwife. So Socrates grew up observing that she assisted women in bringing new life into the world. This experience later influenced his ...

Still, we do know that he lived from 470 to 399 B.C. His father, Sophroniscus, was a well-liked stone cutter and his mother, Phaenarete was a midwife. When his father died, Socrates became his ...

Socrates was born in 469 BC. His father was a stonemason and his mother was a midwife, a profession he would later use to characterize himself, since he would later describe himself as a midwife ...

In his conversations, Socrates played the roles of gadfly and midwife. He engaged in sharp, but not adversarial refutation, designed to cure “normative self-blindness.” A masterful ...

Socrates died in 399 B.C., and it’s not as ... He called himself a “gadfly” and also a “midwife” — refuting his interlocutors’ falsehoods but also helping them bring true ideas ...

“I am like the midwife in that I cannot myself give birth to wisdom … The many admirable truths which [my students] bring to birth have been discovered by themselves from within.” Thus Socrates ...