The Death of Socrates (detail, 1787), Jacques-Louis David - Getty Philosophers are constitutively irritating: this is both their great power and their greatest weakness. Imagine the kind of person ...

Plato and Socrates would have quite a few questions for Texas lawmakers.

Socrates, an Athenian stonemason's son, became a pivotal figure in Western philosophy, known for his relentless questioning ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This cover image released by St. Martin's Press shows "How to Think Like Socrates: Ancient Philosophy as a Way of Life in the ...

'The more I read about Socrates, the less I wonder that they poisoned him.' Why should we still care about a man who did little in his life except talk, and who drank poison in an Athenian prison in ...

Next Thursday, Chicago's National Hellenic Museum will try to give Socrates a more fair trial than what he got in 399 BC, when he was sentenced to death for impiety. Some of the the country's most ...