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 ...

Socrates was a philosopher who influenced countless of generations. Walking through the crowded pathways of Classical Athens, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The most important part of knowledge, in Socrates' view? Knowing how much you don't know. Yoeml/iStock via Getty Images Plus But ...

'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 ...

Michael Stuhlbarg plays the title role of the enduringly influential Greek philosopher in 'Socrates,' a world-premiere play by actor Tim Blake Nelson. By Frank Scheck It’s not a good sign when you’re ...

An impoverished Brazilian teenager struggles for survival after the death of his mother in Alexandre Moratto's debut feature, 'Socrates.' By Frank Scheck Would that all student-affiliated projects ...