(The Conversation) — Athens was deeply polarized over big-picture questions, and Socrates was never hesitant to question both sides’ assumptions – or his own. But each dilemma usually comes down to ...
Jacque-Louis David's painting depicting the death of Socrates in prison about to drink hemlock given by his executioner. (Wikimedia Commons) In 1928, three years after the famed Scopes Trial over the ...
THERE is on occasion a crisis in the life of a man that at the same time constitutes a crucial moment in the life of humanity. Such was what may, by not too forced a metaphor, be called the high ...