When Socrates died in 399 BC, the world that he had known was passing away. The middle of the fifth…
After Socrates’ eventful day in the world of the sophists we can make some observations. The sophists…
As the conversation winds down, Protagoras refuses to answer any more questions. He recognizes that Socrates…
One way of distinguishing between courage and other virtues is to note that the possessor of the virtue must…
When the preliminaries are over, Socrates raises a fundamental question: can virtue be taught? Socrates…
“Young man,” Protagoras says to his prospective student Hippocrates, “if you come to me, your gain will be this. On…
In Socrates’ lifetime the big new thing intellectually was the Sophistic Movement. The…
Socrates’ life is an enigma; the views that he on occasion advances as his own are paradoxical…
So what made Socrates so special? We can identify a few salient traits from Plato’s Socratic dialogues.
