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 ...

Hannah Arendt once described the great teacher and ancient Greek philosopher Socrates using three words: gadfly, midwife and electric ray. Socrates was a gadfly because he knew how to arouse the ...

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 ...

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 ...