We are afraid to ask questions to the power brokers of our time, which makes us more likely to accept easy answers.

Socrates was one of the most renowned Greek philosophers of all time. Born in Athens circa 470 BCE, this ancient Greek philosopher laid the groundwork for Western philosophy, paving the way for ...

Socrates, one of the greatest philosophers of ancient Greece, profoundly shaped the way humans think about life, ethics, and ...

I remember stumbling through my first college philosophy class when the professor asked if anyone knew Socrates’ most famous saying. “‘The unexamined life doesn’t count,’ or, ‘Examine your life for ...

Nearly 2,425 years ago, the Greek philosopher Socrates told prosecutors at his trial, "The unexamined life is not worth living." One charge against him, related to the examined life, was that he had ...

Socrates, an ancient Greek philosopher, believed that we are personally responsible for examining and understanding our own lives, a basic tenet behind his philosophical argument to “know thyself.” He ...

Review of Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life. By Agnes Callard. W.W. Norton & Company. 405 pp. $35. Many know that Socrates declared that “the unexamined life is not worth living.” And ...

“The unexamined life is not worth living." I’m reasonably certain Socrates wasn’t married when he said this. Marriage introduces men to daily rounds of introspection. And, after a few years of inquiry ...

I had a lot of goals for my children in their developing years. They had to learn to eat with a fork, tie their shoes, read, and write, develop social skills, and learn how to enjoy life. But, the ...