Socrates: The Many Faces of Virtue

The Source of Goodness is in Plain Sight

Socrates was accused of corrupting the youth of Athens. He was put on trial and condemned to execution by drinking hemlock poison. Despite being given the chance to escape, Socrates accepted the verdict of his jury and died without protest. Painting: The Death of Socrates by Jacques Louis-David, 1787. (Source: Wikimedia Commons. Public Domain).

There’s a commonly-told ancient parable of a group of blind men who are introduced to an elephant for the first time.

One feels the tusks, one feels the tail, one feels the flank and one feels the trunk. Each blind man describes a different elephant as they feel about their respective parts. Their ideas of what…