Category: Ancient Greece

Few individuals have influenced Western thought like Socrates. His teachings, promulgated through the writings of his students, have endured over two millennia. Significant in this is his promotion of the Socratic Method,…

Born in Athens around 469 BC to stonemason Sophroniscus and midwife Phaenarete, Socrates was a classical Greek philosopher, widely respected as one of the founders of Western Philosophy. He didn’t pen any…