Researchers are testing whether LLMs can use methods borrowed from ancient philosophy to answer complex questions ...

But in “Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life,” Agnes Callard illustrates how philosophy isn’t just a spectator sport. It requires engaging with one another and arguing with each ...

Ruling is a skilled trade, Plato argues. And like any other trade, not everyone has the talent or the training to be good at ...

Antisthenes, Cynic philosopher and tutor of Diogenes, championed simplicity, virtue, and freedom, influencing Stoic thought.

During the trial of Socrates in ancient Athens, the renowned philosopher faced charges of impiety and corrupting youth. In 399 BC, Socrates stood before a jury of 500 Athenian citizens, accused of ...

In the complex and often violent political arena of ancient Greece, ideals of civic engagement and self-determination mingled ...

The arguments Plato makes against democracy in The Republic are spoken by the philosopher Socrates, his teacher and mentor. But the system that Socrates is rejecting, Athenian democracy of the 5th ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Plato's accounts of the last days of Socrates in which he kept doing philosophy right up to the point of his execution by hemlock. Show more Melvyn Bragg and guests ...