How Socrates Taught Athens to Question Everything It Knew
Imagine stopping a respected general in the middle of the Athenian agora and asking him to define courage. Not to insult him, not to test him for a…
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Why Socrates Chose to Drink the Poison
A Verdict Already Decided In the spring of 399 BCE, an Athenian jury of five hundred citizens found a seventy-year-old philosopher guilty of corrupting the youth and disrespecting…
