The classical Greek philosopher Socrates is a fixture of literature and culture, but his legacy is complicated by the fact that what we know of him hasn't come to us directly from him, but from a ...

Véliz is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Ethics in AI at the University of Oxford, the author of Privacy Is Power, and the editor of the Oxford Handbook ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about high tech for low-income Americans. The Greek Philosopher Socrates once told a story about the Egyptian God Theuth ...

We all have, consciously or otherwise, a vision of perfect education: two people, a master and student, sitting together, talking. The classic Aristotelian tutorial model. When the king of Macedon ...

On Thursday, the National Hellenic Museum in Chicago hosted a Re-trial of Socrates, hearkening back to the famous conviction in 399 B.C. that sentenced the philosopher to death by hemlock. Last week, ...

Considered to be the founding father of Western philosophy, Socrates examined all aspects of life in ancient Athens—to his own detriment. Socrates was put to death in 399 B.C. for showing irreverence ...