Portuguese former Prime Minister Jose Socrates appeared before a court on Thursday on the first day of a long-delayed trial ...

Former Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates is standing trial for corruption charges reinstated after being lifted four ...

From Plato’s admiration to Aristophanes’ mockery, this animated explainer uncovers who Socrates really was, if he existed at all.

The Republic (c. 375 BCE), featuring Plato’s teacher Socrates in dialogue with several friends, is unquestionably central to ...

Socrates died in 399 B.C., and it’s not as if there’s a shortage of writing about him or his thought. But Callard says that Socrates has too often been “diluted”: treated like a “sauce ...

The moral integrity Socrates derived from this insight, with its unflinching method of self-examination, gave rise to the famous Socratic method—of seeking knowledge by asking questions, while ...

You write that Socrates believed humans struggle most with politics, love and death. Thinking about politics, how do you persuade people to talk with each other and be more open-minded? If people ...