In Plato’s Republic, Socrates spends a long evening attempting to persuade his young interlocutors “that justice is better ...

Ancient Greek general Phocion, elected 45 times for his leadership, achieved major military triumphs but met a tragic end.

The Genesis of the Forms Plato’s authorship spanned some fifty years, from the death of Socrates in 399 BCE to his own death ...

2 But, in the context of assisted dying, what is harm? On his deathbed Socrates said that he owed “a cock to Asclepius.” Socrates was about to drink hemlock—his death sentence for “corrupting the ...

Compare Christ’s cup of suffering to that of the noble Socrates. Plato records the aged philosopher freely drinking hemlock, but his poisoned chalice was imminent and real. The Athenians were ...

its most recognized use was in the forced suicide of a well-known Greek philosopher in 399 B.C. “Poison hemlock is the famed ...

The great philosopher Socrates was an ancient Athenian who lived ... and restrictions on your eating and drinking”, however good for us they might be. In refusing to accept the country is ...