Tag: "Socrates"

The Wisdom of Ignorance

Daniel Silvermintz wants us to rediscover the virtue of Socratic ignorance.
[Issue 136: February/March 2020: Ancient Greek Wisdom]

What Philosophy Does To Philosophers

Rohan Somji looks at the consequences of thinking for three antique thinkers.
[Issue 136: February/March 2020: Ancient Greek Wisdom]

The Tragedy That Was Athens

Alex Holzman sees the history of Golden Age Athens as a play with Pericles and Socrates as its tragic heroes.
[Issue 136: February/March 2020: Ancient Greek Wisdom]

Tidying Up With Socrates

Freya Mobus compares Socrates’ method of enquiry with a fashionable way to achieve domestic harmony.
[Issue 133: August/September 2019: Articles]

Call the Midwife

Ellen Miller considers birth, wonder, and care as philosophical frameworks.
[Issue 130: February/March 2019: Television]

Socrates & Plato Now & Then

by Grant Bartley
[Issue 122: October/November 2017: Editorial]

Socrates, Memory & The Internet

Matt Bluemink uses a Socratic argument to assess the influence of the net on our brains and our minds.
[Issue 122: October/November 2017: Socrates, Plato and Modern Life]

Socrates & Pre-Truth Politics

Spencer Klavan proclaims Socrates’ revolutionary answer to Nietzsche and Trump.
[Issue 122: October/November 2017: Socrates, Plato and Modern Life]

Who Speaks For Socrates?

Peter Adamson finds Socrates speaking for everyone else.
[Issue 122: October/November 2017: Philosophy Then]

Philosophy Incarnate

Sheldon Currie watches Socrates take on the modern academy.
[Issue 120: June/July 2017: Fiction]