Socrates felt he was helping the youth think by asking them ... This was also the view of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche in his 1883 book Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Nietzsche has Zarathustra ...

The ancient Greek philosopher Socrates once said, “the unexamined life is not worth living.” It is with this desire to ...

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

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Ahead of receiving the John B. Fairchild Honor, Cucinelli reflects on his career and on his goal of being seen as "a decent man." ...

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But this does not detract from the book’s importance ... The hero-philosopher Socrates’s speech is similarly colourful. It features him reminiscing on a youthful visit to an exotic priestess ...