Tag: "Socrates"

Socrates & Zen

Geoff Sheehan uses Buddhist parables to illustrate Socratic philosophy.
[Issue 113: April/May 2016: Articles]

The Ship of Fools

Anja Steinbauer explains why Plato had problems with democracy.
[Issue 101: March/April 2014: Plato and Democracy]

Socrates on Conservatism

Mordecai Roshwald imagines what the Athenian gadfly might have said.
[Issue 101: March/April 2014: Dialogue]

Socrates and His Clouds

Katie Javanaud sees a dramatic vindication of Socrates.
[Issue 98: September/October 2013: Theatre]

Picking A Fight With Plato

Ed Fraser argues that the theory of recollection presented by Socrates in the Meno is circular.
[Issue 90: May/June 2012: Plato]

Addicts, Mythmakers and Philosophers

Alan Brody explains Plato’s/Socrates’ understanding of habitually bad behavior.
[Issue 90: May/June 2012: Plato]

What Would Socrates Say To Mrs Smith?

Susan Gardner gets some childcare tips from the wisest man in ancient Athens.
[Issue 84: May/June 2011: Philosophy & Children]

On Reviving Socrates

by Andrea Nicki
[Issue 82: January/February 2011: Poetry]

Having returned from the turn of the Fourth Century B.C. to the turn of the Twenty-First A.D., Socrates eagerly signed on as a Philosophy Now columnist so that he could continue to carry out his divinely-inspired dialogic mission. Now, a decade later, he hears a distant summons…
[Issue 78: April/May 2010: Dear Socrates]

Dear Socrates

Having traveled from the turn of the Fourth Century B.C. to the turn of the Twenty-First Century A.D., Socrates has eagerly signed on as a Philosophy Now columnist so that he may continue to carry out his divinely-inspired dialogic mission.
[Issue 77: February/March 2010: Dear Socrates]