Folks who saw the hapless vessel commented on how big the ship seemed, and how out of place, so close to shore.

The Quote of the Day today is by Socrates. In this article, read about the Quote of the Day, its meaning, Who is Socrates, ...

Socrates is the most important exponent of Western philosophy, his ideas forming a continuum from Ancient Greece to today's ...

The Death of Socrates (detail, 1787), Jacques-Louis David - Getty Philosophers are constitutively irritating: this is both their great power and their greatest weakness. Imagine the kind of person ...

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In the year 399 B.C., Socrates was brought to trial in Athens on trumped-up charges of corrupting the youth and teaching about gods other than those of the state. In reality, his crime was ...

Jeff Frank, associate professor and chair of the education department at St. Lawrence University, examines the philosophy of education. His most recent book is “Teaching in the Now: John Dewey on the ...

If you could be invisible and never get caught, would acting unjustly make you happy? Ancient wisdom suggests why the answer ...