Athens was deeply polarized over big-picture questions, and Socrates was never hesitant to question both sides’ assumptions – ...

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Her superpowers as a philosopher sprung out of the frustration at getting her thoughts and herself across to people who ...

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There is a perceptible Roman bias in the teaching of law, but the ancient Greeks were actually also quite influential.

But in “Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life ... Callard offers a roadmap for using the ancient Greek philosopher for approaching knotty discussion on topics such as love ...

The Republic, the best-known work of ancient Greek philosopher Plato ... democracy in The Republic are spoken by the philosopher Socrates, his teacher and mentor. But the system that Socrates ...

Callard offers a roadmap for using the ancient Greek philosopher for approaching knotty discussion on topics such as love, politics and death. Callard's book is intellectually challenging and hardly a ...