For example, it used to be thought that death by hemlock was rather gruesome – spasms, choking, vomiting and so on. So Plato’s depiction of the untroubled death of Socrates was taken to be Plato’s ...

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Socrates, whose full name was Socrates Brasileiro Sampaio de Sousa Vieira de Oliveira was widely regarded 被普遍认为是 ...

In 370 BCE, Plato writing Socrates’ words in Phaedrus took the helm of another moral panic. He wrote, “This invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they ...

Socrates, in the end, died precisely because he did not share Callard’s view of either philosophy or the philosophical life. Confronted with the choice between execution and the pursuit of ...

Greek sources portrayed the Achaemenid kings, as indulgent and ruthless—all but Cyrus II. Why was this enemy ruler the only ...

In her latest book, Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life, Callard explores why inquiry—not certainty—is at the heart of philosophy. Her work is both deeply personal and inherently Socratic ...

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