Philosophers who were disciples of Socrates worried about the moral and political habits encouraged by maritime life and access to the sea. Trade, mobility, and empire shaped character and transformed ...

Our health and well-being depends on disassociating ourselves from the persistent negative thoughts that can lead to bitterness.

Detail from the Chigi vase. Source: Wikimedia Commons/Public domain While discussing philosophy in the public square, Socrates would also have been training as a hoplite, a heavily armed foot soldier ...

Socrates, an ancient Greek philosopher from Athens, profoundly influenced Western thought without writing. His method of ...

Almost 2,500 years after his death, Socrates continues to fascinate. The Greek thinker is seen, by some, as the father of philosophy, a martyr for the cause of freedom of speech and even as a kind of ...

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have” — $1.277 trillion in U.S.

Though much was written about Socrates, who lived in ancient Greece in the fifth century BC, the philosopher himself never ...